Pakistan
Subtitle: A Modern History
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: February 2, 2010
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780230623040
Subjects: History -- Asia -- Pakistan; History -- World
First sentence: Contemporary Pakistan, with an area of 803,943 square miles (twice the size of California), is strategically located to the east of the Persian Gulf and in close proximity to China and Russia.