Pakistan: A Personal History

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The Warrior Race is Imran Khan book on tribal areas where he profoundly discusses the Tribal areas and the Pathans. In the book, Khan details Pakistan's history; his political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf; and his own life and cricket career. His struggle to raise funds for the cancer hospital, his conflicting ideologies, first with Cricket boards, and later, with the State President are well documented.

Now Imran Khan and his own political party, the Tehreek-e-Insaf, offer a real political alternative for the people of Pakistan at a time when tension between Pakistan's government and the powerful military has reached dangerous new levels.I would also recommend it to anyone confused about Islam to the outsider one doesn’t know what Islam is because on the one extreme there are various fundamentalist groups at war with themselves as much as against the West or the spiritual saints of the Sufi tradition who seem above all worldly and political affairs.

You are welcome to link to my Posts, but please do not copy or use republish my Posts without my express consent.I would have imagined the choice of narrator to be some one who has some background in the politics of sub continent so that he can pronounce the names properly. Again when Khan talks of opposition to women’s liberation, we are told, ‘ While the masses in Pakistan are impressed by the tremendous technological progress of the Western world, their understanding of the Western moral value system mainly comes from watching television and they do not respect what they see.

Pakistan: A Personal History provides a unique insider's view of a country unfamiliar to a western audience. Hearing the life stories of Imran Khan makes you understand his character, resilience and passion as a person and as a Pakistani.Third chapter is his account on his university-level and county cricket, beginning of international cricket career and his life in England. Controversial case of Imran’s affair with Sita White is sensitively not protracted as I was expecting. Born only five years after Pakistan was created in 1947, Imran Khan has lived his country's history.