Mohsin Hamid lives in Lahore. His new novel, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, was published this spring. (May 2013)
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Pakistan: Why Drones Don’t Help
May 23, 2013
Living Under Drones: Death, Injury, and Trauma to Civilians from US Drone Practices in Pakistan a report by the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic at Stanford Law School and the Global Justice Clinic at the NYU School of Law
Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands
edited by Shahzad Bashir and Robert D. Crews
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Why They Get Pakistan Wrong
September 29, 2011
The Scorpion’s Tail: The Relentless Rise of Islamic Militants in Pakistan—and How It Threatens America
by Zahid Hussain
Pakistan: A Hard Country
by Anatol Lieven
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A Kennedy for Pakistan?
March 22, 2012
In Pakistan there is much talk of democratic ideals, but little love for the country’s current crop of politicians, and so there seems to be a yearning for a new kind of leader able to break the cycle of weakness and mediocrity. Into this situation has surged the former cricket superstar Imran Khan, who in recent months has suddenly become the country’s most popular political figure.