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Born only five years after Pakistan was created in 1947, Imran Khan has lived hiscountry’s history. Undermined by a ruling elite hungry for money and power, Pakistan nowstands alone as the only Islamic country with a nuclear bomb, yet unable to protect itspeople from the carnage of regular bombings at home.How did it reach this flashpoint ofinstability and injustice with such potentially catastrophic results for the whole world?
Recounting his country’s history through the prism of his own memories, Imran Khanstarts from its foundation, ripped out of the dying British Raj.He guides us through andcomments on subsequent historical developments which shook the Muslim world – thewars with India in 1965 and 1971, the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the Soviet invasion ofAfghanistan, the 9/11 terrorist attacks – to the current controversial and intractable warin Afghanistan.Throughout we see these events viewed not only through the eyes ofWesterners, but through those of ordinary Pakistanis.
Drawing on the experiences of his own family and his wide travels within his homeland,The Cornered Tiger: A Personal History of Pakistan provides a unique insider’s view of acountry unfamiliar to a western audience. Woven into this history we see how ImranKhan’s personal life – his happy childhood in Lahore,his Oxford education, hisextraordinary cricketing career, his playboy years and marriage to Jemima Goldsmith, hismother’s influence and that of his Islamic faith – inform both the historical narrative andhis current philanthropic and political activities.It is at once absorbing and insightful,casting fresh light upon a country whose culture he believes is largely misunderstood bythe West.
ISBN - 9780593067758
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Pages : 400
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