Pakistan: Eye of the Storm

A fascinating look at Pakistan’s past, an inside account of its recent history, and a knowledgeable assessment of its future options

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Bennett Jones’ market-leading account of this critical modern state includes fresh material on the Taliban insurgency, the Musharraf years, the return and subsequent assassination of Benazir Bhutto, and the unlikely election as president of Asif Ali Zardari.

Praise for the first edition

“The world has a stake in what happens in Pakistan. How great a stake, this book makes compellingly clear.”—Robert M. Hathaway, Wilson Quarterly
 

“[A] lucid and sobering examination. . . . Owen Bennett Jones has delivered a well-crafted, clear, balanced and often quite lively account that should be immensely useful.”—Thomas W. Lippman, Washington Post Book World

Owen Bennett Jones was BBC correspondent in Pakistan and is now correspondent in Asia for the BBC World Service. He has written for the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Independent, the London Review of Books, and Prospect magazine.

• Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding
• Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology
• The East India Company, 1600–1858: A Short History with Documents (Passages: Key Moments in History)
• The Mughal Empire (The New Cambridge History of India)
• Gandhi (Profiles in Power)
• Pakistan: A Hard Country
• The Human Past: World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies (Third Edition)
• The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
• Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition