The Fifth Lash and Other Stories by Anis Shivani

Whither the Islamic world? Whither Pakistan? Revolution is on the streets of the Arab/Islamic world, Pakistan is experiencing a remote drone war and violence fomented by mysterious forces, and writing has apparently thrown up its hands at making sense of the chaos. Ten years after the start of the perpetual war on terror, Pakistan, the country at the fulcrum of it, remains a mystery.