Pakistan, as a society and as a polity, has been a representation of history's cyclic characteristic. Unfortunately, these repetitions have been rather too fast-track. Pakistan's history has been a decade to decade phenomenon-a decade for quasi-democracy and a decade for stern dictatorial regime. The present work attempts to relate the country's political deviations with the dynamics of Cold War and Post Cold War global compulsions.

Ghani Khan-An ambassador of love and peace, a champion of truth and tolerance-is one of the greatest Pashto poets of all times. His peculiarity is in his unprecedented frankness and in his ability to conveniently challenge the established notions and centuries old cherished traditions of the Pashtun society-A society characterised by the love of culture and traditions. The present chapbook is an attempt to share the aesthetically delicate and emotionally rich, philosophically potent and psychologically compelling facets of the Pashtun character.

Tribal areas, especially Waziristan, have acquired a renewed mention in the post-cold war era of uni-polar world of the new order. Its geographic contiguity and ethnic affinity with the neighbouring Afghanistan once again makes it the focus of international wrath and internal mess. Being a theatre for thespians of spite and a playing-field for players of Great Game, Waziristan continues to suffer from the realities of geo-strategic existence in global compulsions and regional responses. The centuries-old battle for its survival continues in the ...

The present work can never be regarded or can claim to be a complete and through account of the Khattak tribe, but can be a source of persuasion for others to work on the subject and produce a more authoritative, self-contained and full story of the people, who can rightly claim their role in the history of the subcontinent.People who have been termed as "the best conducted and most respectable tribe on this frontier."