2002-07-21 A standard book on its subject

This book is among the very few that I would categorise as the best I have yet to see so far on this subject from modern western authors. Although I will say that it suffers from what in my opinion are scholastic flaws like "naively" rendered name misspellings and many contextual mistakes, I can vouch that its general rendition is superb, sensible and just the way it should be, in describing its subject and its conditions properly. Ms.Lamb uses ordinary, everyday language in an expert manner, making her book not only a pleasant read, but also comprehensible and stimulating to the general reader and expert alike. It very adequately expresses the realist contention regarding the saga of Pakistan, which is the saga of a present day state whose society is comprised of a robber people and their barons...which in the end is meant to become a nightmarish lesson for "developed" (western) greed, apathy and decadent attitudes and behaviours, in the post September 11 world. This may not be apparent to many at the present time. But Christina Lamb provided material enough way back in 1990 through this book, for those "who have eyes to see and ears to hear and the inner vision to foresee"--as my version of the biblical adage goes--to be able to fortell the turn of events now to come, years down the line from then.