title: Pakistan: A Hard Country
author:  Anatol Lieven 
description: &#147;If I had to review the book 'Pakistan: A Hard Country' in one line I would say it is brilliant. The book is well researched, informative, insightful, but most of all for a country that finds itself often in headline news for the wrong reasons, empathetic.&#8221;<BR>&#160;<BR><B><I>The Age</I></B><B>, May 20, 2011</B><BR>&#147;In his fine new book Pakistan. A Hard Country, Lieven argues that while the state is weak, Pakistani society is immensely strong.&#8221;<BR>&#160;<BR><B><I>New Statesman</I></B><B>, May 12, 2011</B><BR>&#147;does much to counter lazy assumptions about the country that proliferate elsewhere"<BR>&#160;<BR><B><I>The Spectator, </I>May 13, 2011</B><BR>&#147;His analysis of networks and systems is precise; his accounts of his travels illuminating as well as entertaining.&#8221;<BR>&#160;<BR><B><I>The Guardian, </I>May 1, 2011</B><BR>&#147;Lieven's Pakistan: A Hard Country is one such blow for clarity and sobriety&#133; Lieven overturns many prejudices, and gives general readers plenty of fresh concepts with which to think about a routinely misrepresented country.&#8221;<BR>&#160;<BR><B><I>The Independent, </I></B><B>May 5, 2011<BR><BR></B><br /><br /><div><BR>
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