Neha Publishers & Distributors
57 books
The military history of Pakistan encompasses an immense panorama of conflicts and struggles extending for more than 2,000 years across areas constituting modern Pakistan and the greater South Asia. The history of the modern-day military of Pakistan begins from post-1947, after Pakistan achieved its independence as a modern nation-state. Pakistan's passive support of the Taliban is thus a useful hedge against the day when NATO decides to start pulling out and ...
Pakistan carried out six nuclear explosions on 28 and 30 May 1998 at the Chagai test site in reaction to India’s conduct of five nuclear tests about two weeks earlier. Expectedly, the tests provoked strong international condemnation. On the eve of, and following the tests, Islamabad pointed out that its action was basically reactive to the Indian tests and necessary to ensure the survival of Pakistan. The country’s unlimited energy conservation needs ...
The Taliban is a predominanthly Pashtun, Islamic fundamentalist group that ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001, when a U.S.-led invasion toppled the regime for providing refuge to al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. The Taliban regrouped across the border in Pakistan, where its central leadership, headed by mullah Mohammed Omar, leads an insurgency against the Western-backed government in abul. Both the United States and Afghanistan have pursued a negotiated ...
Viewing the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as one of the main jihadist groups fighting government forces in Iraq and Syria, the volume comes in an attempt to examine the rise of the group and its impact. It presents a historical background of the ISIS and views its functioning, its structure and presence in the countries of the Middle East, various happenings alleged to have been committed by the group and links between this group and other outfits in the ...