Nine Lives Of Pakistan

Declan Walsh's portrait of Pakistan over a decade of tumultuous change captures the sweep of this volatile country through the dramatic lives of nine individuals. Walsh travelled from the raucous port of Karachi to the salons of Lahore, from Baluchistan to the mountains of Waziristan, meeting a diverse cast of extraordinary Pakistanis - a chieftain readying for war, a retired spy skulking through the borderlands, and a crusading lawyer risking death for her beliefs.

Unravelling the country's many mysteries of state and religion, Walsh illuminates and entertains, vividly unpeeling Pakistan and the Insha'Allah, if God wishes it, way of life.