Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Maps
List of Photographs
Dramatis Personae
Introduction
1: In History Bound
2: Enter the British
3: The Army of the Raj
4: A Difficult Birth
5: The First Kashmir War
6: The Legacy of Conflict: Chaos and Ambitions
7: Courting Uncle Sam
8: Things Fall Apart
9: The First Coup
10: Martial Law and the Search for Legitimacy
11: Wars and Consequences
12: September '65 and Ayub's Fall
13: Untied Pakistan-How to Break-Up a Country
14: Wars and Consequences
15: Bhutto Rules
16: Guardians of the Faith
17: The Troika's Musical Chairs
18: Systemic Failures: The Wars Within
19: The Liberal Autocrat
20: Today and Tomorrow
Appendices:
Appendix 1: Timeline: Key Events - Pakistan and Its Army
Appendix 2: Primary Sources
Appendix 3: Death of an Army Chief
Appendix 4: Two anonymous letters about death of General Asif Nawaz
Appendix 5: Copy of original test result of General Nawaz's hair sample
Select Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Shuja Nawaz was a newscaster and current affairs producer with Pakistan Television from 1967 to 1972. He covered the 1971 war with India on the Western front. A graduate of Gordon College, Rawalpindi and the Graduate School of Journalism of Columbia University, he has worked for The New York Times and the World Health Organization, and as a Division Chief at the International Monetary Fund and as a Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency. He has also
been Editor of Finance & Development, the multilingual quarterly of the IMF and the World Bank, and has written and spoken widely on military and politico-economic issues. He lives in Alexandria,
Virginia.

Reviews

This is by far the fullest and most authoritative analysis yet published of Pakistan and its army and intelligence services.
*New York Review of Books*