• ISBN13: 9789381523964
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Niyogi Books
• Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook
• Publication Date: May 16, 2014
• Pages: 204
• Original Price: INR 395.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 273 grams

Pakistan is under increasing scrutiny, being central to an intense and escalating political and ideological conflict between the West and fundamentalist Islamic organizations. Following the killing of Osama bin Laden and the case of Raymond Davis, an undercover CIA agent who killed two isi agents in Lahore, but was later released due to diplomatic immunity, relations between Washington and Islamabad have become strained, and are at their lowest point for decades. Apocalypse Pakistan poses the question: how did they reach this point and how could they, for more than a decade, pretend to be fighting the same enemy together? More importantly, it examines the future of a relationship that has an important bearing not only in terms of National politics; the consequences of a continued fallout, have a bearing on key international developments, on continued conflict or the possibility of negotiating peace.".

Francesca Marino is an Italian journalist who has covered South Asia extensively. She writes regularly for Limes-Italian Review of Geopolitics and some of the most prestigious Italian and Swiss media. She won the Italian journalism prize, Il Luigiano d'oro in 2010. She is the Chief Editor of Stringer Asia, an online magazine on South Asia, since 1995. She is also a respected photographer and has been published in international magazines including Geo. Her previous publication was India in 100 Immagini (2007). Beniamino Natale is Senior Correspondent for ANSA (Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata), the main Italian news agency in China since 2003; from 1992 to 2002, he was the Chief of the New Delhi bureau of ANSA. His last publication, L'uomo che parlava con i corvi is the story of his years as a correspondent in South Asia. He has produced television documentaries on Afghanistan, India and China.