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This book throws light on the uncelebrated lives of some of Pakistan's High-altitude Porters (HAPs), who help mountaineers climb the Pakistan-based high mountain peaks. The book primarily discusses the lives and careers of those HAPs who have summited Pakistan-based eight-thousand-metre peaks. The author has attempted to delve into their lives by digging out adventure and drama in their stories, which makes her work a significant contribution on the literatureavailable on this topic. This book will be the first to record the names of the porters alongside those of the more wealthy climbers who hired them.

The book presents an autobiographical narrative of renowned journalist Ahfaz ur Rehman, who led the historic journalists' movement in the late 1970s against the military ruler, General Zia ul-Haq.

Claire Chambers explores global literature, with a special focus on texts from Pakistan and its diaspora. Highlighting its quality and urgency, and authors' bold treatment of hot topics like Islamophobia, racism, and the culture industry, Chambers formulates a strong case for drawing this writing into the mainstream English canon and analyses emerging as well as established writers working in various genres.

Pirani & Other Short Stories is an English translation of Jamal Abro's collection of short stories that were originally published in the Sindhi language. Abro is considered to be amongst the best writers in the Sindhi literary arena. The book comprises of sixteen short stories that capture the essence of the land and the people of rural Sindh. Pirani & Other Short Stories arrests the reader's interest with its diversity, specific characteristics, andpenetrating depiction of Sindh's social order.

The book offers a research-based account of the prevalent attitudes towards female healthcare practitioners in Pakistan. It takes a scholarly look at various structural issues that exist because of a strong gender bias against women, and discusses the way it affects the role delivery of women practitioners in hospital settings.

This book takes into account the confluence of different factors in studying pressures on, and prospects for, the mobility of Arab Muslim women. Saiyma Aslam discusses Arab Muslim feminism as a travelling theory which is deeply sensitive to global realities. The book explores the works of two writers, the Moroccan sociologist Fatima Mernissi and the Egyptian novelist Nawal El Saadawi, who call attention to the stasis in domestic gender relations and the processes ofchange under global restructuring.

This casebook brings together internationally published business cases written by the author. These cases have been written to document management practices in Pakistani companies in order to acquaint students and practitioners with the challenges of corporate decision-making.

This book informs the reader about the many inspiring stories of conservation activities taking place across Pakistan. The stories are penned in an engaging, personal manner with rigorous research endorsed by WWF-Pakistan. An important record of the recent conservation history of Pakistan, these stories have been selected from the author's travels over the past two decades to far-flung areas ranging from the Karakoram Mountains to the Makran Coast.

This book reviews the recent internal security challenges facing Pakistan. It is a timely and valuable addition to the literature on the subject of governance and the rule of law.

The book presents creative essays by Harris Khalique on the political and social history of Pakistan. It also discusses issues pertaining to identity, intellectual suffocation, and arts and culture in Pakistan.

Pakistan's shrine architecture, epitomized by the fourteenth-century tomb of Shaikh Rukn al Din Rukn-i Alam in Multan, is justly renowned for vivid tile work, imposing domes, and surpassing beauty. These buildings are also stylistically distinct from architecture in adjoining regions. This book traces the emergence of this extraordinary building tradition with reference to lesser known commemorative sites throughout the Indus Valley that predate more famousmonuments.

This volume contains primary source documents related to the writing of the Punjab Frontier Crimes Regulation of 1887 and ensuing years of debate over the need for additional revisions to the FCR. In the years after 11 September 2001, a period of turmoil in Afghanistan and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan, such debates were urgently continued, even as power relations meant they were less urgently acted upon.

Oxford English-Sindhi Dictionary is an English-Sindhi version of our very popular The Concise Oxford Dictionary (9th edition) with 2200 pages and size of 240 x 180 mm. It contains approximately 65,000 headwords, more than 1,40,000 meanings and about 3 million text words.