The Secession of East Pakistan: Why States Break UpHasan, MasumaPakistan Horizon
Why was Pakistan created out of India during decolonization? Why did the British East India Company enter the Indian subcontinent? Why was Mesopotamia called the "cradle of civilization"? Why is Mount Everest named after George Everest? Why were the Vikings called...
Obama’s foreign policy advisers, Robert Gates, General James Jones, and Admiral Michael Mullen, point to “intelligence” that Osama is “hiding” in Pakistan. Yet this same “intelligence,” after many months of American air attacks and special forces operations into the badlands of the Pakista...
According to Kurlansky, there isn’t any trace left of the wild onion from which cultivated onions were eventually developed, but it seems to have started somewhere in the Pamir Mountains from Pakistan to Tibet, “maybe Turkestan or Uzbekistan.. “The first culture assumed to have consumed...
I’ve been lucky enough to make many friends on my travels but the friendships I’ve forged in Pakistan were some of the most genuine I have ever made; the people simply cannot do enough for you. I Couchsurfed my way around the country, being welcomed into the homes of numerous stranger...
How and why did Britain seize Indian Territory? Why did Britain agree to the Partition of India? Why was the decolonization of India a turning point? Why was Pakistan created out of India during decolonization? Why were the British interested in East Africa? Why did the East India Comp...
power parity terms. Removing the shackles that currently impede economic growth, to provide a stable base and good Governance for entrepreneurs to flourish, has probably not been considered since the days of Hermitage's focus on probity as a way of enhancing market value in the "Wild East". ...
The East Indian Company and Sepoys: When the English established the East India Company in the early 1600s, they also became involved in domestic affairs in India. There were occasional wars and other social calamities in India throughout the 1600s and 1700s. Furthermore, the Dutch and French...
There are several reasons why India is a poor country. Some have historical roots and others derive strength from socio-political structures. Lack of effective governance and corruption has only sustained Indian poverty.
Something akin to a modern state emerged in 1747 when an Afghan named Ahmad Shah Durrani formed a coalition of tribes and extended his writ north to the Oxus, west to Persian Khorasan and east almost to the Indus. By that time, however, history had entered a new stage: Europeans had comp...