Introduces eight men who made significant discoveries about ancient Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, uses their coins and collections as the basis for a critical appraisal of modern views and sources for interpreting the history of the three countries, and features a collection of papers that discuss specific aspects of the discoveries made by early pioneers. Includes photographs.and illustrations.
Discusses the history, geography, plants and animals, culture, architecture and sights, and more of Pakistan. Provides guides to drawing features and symbols of the country.
A biography of Malala Yousafzai, a Muslim teenage girl from Pakistan, who advocates for education of women and children, and whom the Taliban attempted to assassinate on October 9, 2012.
While working at Pakistan's first independent television station, Aasmani encounters an old friend of her mother's who gives Aasmani a letter written in a code used by her missing mother and an exiled poet, leading Aasmani on a search for her past.
Eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, and must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes.
