(Part 2) Top products from r/pakistan

Happy to share my thoughts as this is something that interests me greatly. When not busy with mundane business stuff, I'm always thinking about how to get the best out of my team.

>Really what just scares me is that I panic easily

Well, fear triggers the primitive part of the brain which very quickly suppresses your PFC. Unfortunately, this is exactly the bit of the brain that you need to be working at its best. And the way to make your brain understand that the world will not end if the threat is realised is by experiencing it. For instance, deliberately failing an assessment that doesn't count towards the final score.

And shifting one's perspective on performance is critical to managing the amygdala. Therefore rather than saying "I must get an A grade" to yourself, it needs to be "I'll do the very best I can and will continuously improve." This way exam is not a threat but rather an opportunity to improve.

Good read: Chimp Paradox.

Exploding Mangoes was the first book I read about Pakistan. Here's a list:

• Pakistan - Social and Cultural Transformations in a Muslim Nation
  A little dry for my taste but I couldn't recommend this more. This book charts the social consequences of state policies and economic factors over the whole time period from '47 to now.
  
  
• Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
  Very important book if you want to avoid the conspiracy theories floating about Taliban and our role in their rise.
  
  
• Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military
  Interested in Pakistan army's relationship with mullahs over the years? This is a must-read.
  
  
• Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding
  Title is self explanatory.
  
  
• Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples & Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey
  A very informative and interesting two part series on what joins the non-Arab muslims of the world, with a large portion about Pakistan. Written by Nobel Laureate for Literature Naipaul, behnoi of Maj. Gen. Ameer Faisal Alvi who was assassinated in 2008 in Islamabad.
  
  
• Pakistan: A Hard Country
  A good overview of what makes Pakistan run the way it does.
  
  
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist
  Haven't read it but have heard good things about it.
  
  
• The Army and Democracy; Military Politics in Pakistan
  Haven't read it yet.

I came across this book recently, it's a great resource as long as you're past the basics (i.e. you can read the script). Can't help you with that first part.

das book

and i just checked out the first few pages on amazon, i guess it does introduce the script as well, it's possible i saw a volume past the first one....

My favorite Carl Sagan book though is "The demon-haunted world: science as a candle in the dark".

As for my recommendation for a popular science book I would say: "Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking"

Not the usual that people recommend. Do think both are interesting

https://www.amazon.com/Pakistans-Foreign-Policy-Reappraisal-Paperbacks/dp/0195479122

The "truth" is that it's gone down from just around the 50% mark right before the time of partition.

There are two books that you should look up if you are interested in this topic-
The Making of Exile: Sindhi Hindus and the Partition of India
The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories

Hmm. Which part of it do you find objectionable? Because the information I picked is from The Penguin History of Early India FROM THE ORIGINS TO AD 1300- By Romila Thapar

I know of Ice Candy Man by Bapsi Sidhwa. There's a movie about it too.

Ask, and you shall receive

Pakistan: A Hard Country

These books are available in India

http://www.amazon.in/Machine-Learning-Probabilistic-Perspective-Computation/dp/0262018020

http://www.amazon.in/Pattern-Recognition-Learning-Information-Statistics/dp/0387310738/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1502576905&sr=1-1&keywords=Pattern+Recognition+and+Machine+Learning+by+Christopher+Bishop

http://www.amazon.in/Deep-Learning-Adaptive-Computation-Machine/dp/0262035618/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1502576961&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=Deep+learning+by+Yousha+Bengio

I tried to put a pakistani address to check if amazon india ships there, http://imgur.com/a/OIhIL but it doesn't.

Sorry bro, I wish there was something I could do.

Israel openly armed Iran against Saddam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%27s_role_in_the_Iran–Iraq_war

The CIA broke relations with Iran, Mossad did not.


According to David Menashri of Tel Aviv University, a leading expert on Iran:

>"Throughout the 1980s, no one in Israel said anything about an Iranian threat - the word wasn't even uttered."

and

>“Iran is Israel's best friend and we do not intend to change our position in relation to Tehran, because Khomeini's regime will not last forever.”

-Yitzach Shamir, 1987


https://www.amazon.com/Treacherous-Alliance-Secret-Dealings-Israel/dp/0300143117


Trita Parsi is reviled by neocons, just so you know.


>You've done the same thing here as you did on the Iranian sub; 'Israel took a side'. No, my smart friend, far-right government in Israel taking inspiration from the Yinon Plan did not take a side. They wished to ensure that both countries bled each other out seeing as they were both a target for regime change.




The Yinon Plan was created because of the threat Saddam posed. Sharon viewed Saddam as enemy #1. Israel tried to kill him three times. They tried it in the 70s while they were aiding the PUK and KDP against him, during Bramble Bush in 1992 and Bramble Bush II in 1999

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bramble_Bush

https://www.afio.com/sections/wins/1999/notes0599.html

https://www.timesofisrael.com/mossad-tried-to-kill-saddam-in-the-1970s-new-documentary-reveals/

This is a good read. Also Charlie Wilson's War, the book not the movie gives some insight.

This is a good book to read for first person accounts and secret British reports on the violence in Punjab during partition.

There is no specific reason as to "why Punjab experienced more violence than [others]". It just did.

I'll recommend some books that I'm reading right now

Thinking, fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman

Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan

Broca's Brain by Carl Sagan

Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman by Richard Feynman

Why Nations Fail by Robinson and Acemoglu

In Afghanistan's Shadow: Baluch Nationalism and Soviet Temptations

The Terrorist Prince: The Life and Death of Murtaza Bhutto

I personally think it's not religion that invoke people to kill Ahmadis or any other minority of the world. Just study any persecution in the world whether it's Rwanda, Sudan or North Korea. The main motive to kill is not religion. It's either economic or political reasons. I would highly recommend Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. We as a nation are either angry at our poverty or social conditions and then we try to blame it on the minorities.