India: India has successfully tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile, the Agni-V. The missile has a range of over 5,000 kilometers, which puts it within reach of targets in China and Pakistan.

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#PDF_Download I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai , Christina Lamb

I come from a country that was created at midnight When I almost died it was just after midday. .When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan. one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.On Tuesday. October 9. 2012. when she was fifteen. she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school. and few expected her to survive.Instead. Malalas miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen. she became a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel...

#PDF_Download A Different Kind of Daughter [Paperback] [Mar 09, 2017] Maria Toorpakai by Maria Toorpakai

Maria Toorpakai hails from Pakistan's violently oppressive northwest tribal region, where the idea of women playing sports is considered haram-un-Islamic-forbidden—and girls rarely leave their homes. But she did, passing as a boy in order to play the sports she loved, thus becoming a lightning rod of freedom in her country's fierce battle over women's rights.

#PDF_Download Lone Survivor by Patrick Luttrell Marcus; Robinson

On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious Al Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less than 24 hours later, only one of those Navy SEALs remained alive.

#PDF_Download Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban: Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11 by Syed Saleem Shahzad

President Obama may have delivered on his campaign promise to kill Osama bin Laden, but as an Al-Qaeda strategist bin Laden has been dead for years. This book introduces and examines the new generation of Al-Qaeda leaders who have been behind the most recent attacks. Investigative journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad dedicated his life to revealing the strategies and inner workings of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. He had access to top-level commanders in both movements, as well as within the ISI, Pakistan's intelligence service. Shahzad's work was praised by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for 'bringing to light the troubles extremism poses to Pakistan's stability'. Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban explains the wider aims of both organisations and provides an essential analysis of major terrorist incidents, including the 2008 Mumbai attacks. In May 2011, Shahzad was abducted and killed in Paki

#PDF_Download The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M. Masood

Following two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 1990s to San Francisco in 2016, Bad Muslim Discount is a hilarious, timely, and provocative comic novel about being Muslim immigrants in modern America. For fans of Hanif Kureshi, Mira Jacob, and Mohammed Hanif.

#PDF_Download The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Kim Barker

Now a Major Motion Picture titled Whiskey Tango Foxtrot starring Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina, and Billy Bob Thornton.

#PDF_Download The Taliban Revival: Violence and Extremism on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier by Hassan Abbas

In autumn 2001, U.S. and NATO troops were deployed to Afghanistan to unseat the Taliban rulers, repressive Islamic fundamentalists who had lent active support to Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda jihadists. The NATO forces defeated and dismantled the Taliban government, scattering its remnants across the country. But despite a more than decade-long attempt to eradicate them, the Taliban endured—regrouping and reestablishing themselves as a significant insurgent movement. Gradually they have regained control of large portions of Afghanistan even as U.S. troops are preparing to depart from the region

#PDF_Download Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Extraordinary Journey to Promote Peace - One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson

HERE WE DRINK THREE CUPS OF TEA TO DO BUSINESS; THE FIRST YOU ARE A STRANGER, THE SECOND YOU BECOME A FRIEND, AND THE THIRD, YOU JOIN OUR FAMILY, AND FOR OUR FAMILY WE ARE PREPARED TO DO ANYTHING - EVEN DIE. HAJI ALI, KORPHE VILLAGE CHIEF, KARAKORAM MOUNTAINS, PAKISTAN IN 1993, AFTER A TERRIFYING AND DISASTROUS ATTEMPT TO CLIMB K2, A MOUNTAINEER CALLED GREG MORTENSON DRIFTED, COLD AND DEHYDRATED, INTO AN IMPOVERISHED PAKISTAN VILLAGE IN THE KARAKORAM MOUNTAINS. MOVED BY THE INHABITANTS KINDNESS, HE PROMISED TO RETURN AND BUILD A SCHOOL. THREE CUPS OF TEA IS THE STORY OF THAT PROMISE AND ITS EXTRAORDINARY OUTCOME. OVER THE NEXT DECADE MORTENSON BUILT NOT JUST ONE BUT FIFTY-FIVE SCHOOLS - ESPECIALLY FOR GIRLS - IN REMOTE VILLAGES ACROSS THE FORBIDDING AND BREATHTAKING LANDSCAPE OF PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN, JUST AS THE TALIBAN ROSE TO POWER. HIS STORY IS AT ONCE A

#PDF_Download Unsettled by Reem Faruqi

A stirring, hopeful immigration story of Nurah and her family, who move from Karachi, Pakistan, to Peachtree City, Georgia, from Reem Faruqi, ALA Notable author of the award-winning picture book Lailah’s Lunchbox. Powerful and charming, Other Words for Home meets Front Desk in this debut middle grade novel in verse about finding your footing in a new world.