This book is a collection of essays by young researchers at Observer
ResearchFoundation. The essays offer a fresh insight into the working of a
nation thathas remained a turbulent enigma to most of the world. The book
explores severalcritical issues confronting today's Pakistan, highlighting in
the process thedilemma of a nation which brandishes nuclear weapons to gain
legitimacy but isfast hurtling towards a future which is as uncertain as the
past. Pakistan isnot an easy nation to understand. These essays, written with
clarity andconcern, provide glimpses of a nation that was conceived as a Land of
Pure.