We Have Learnt Nothing From History

We have never learnt from History is about Pakistan's Politics and Military Power by M. Asghar Khan. In this book, Air Marshal (Retired) M. Asghar Khan presents an insider’s view of Pakistan's struggle for democracy from the 1960s to the present.
The book expounds on the early entry of Pakistan’s Armed Forces into the country’s politics and the author's opposition to military rule that began in 1968 with the movement for the restoration of democracy. This movement resulted in the ouster of President Muhammad Ayub Khan in 1969 after eleven years of military rule. The book concludes with the author’s assessment of General Pervez Musharraf’s five years in power consequent upon the re-entry of the Armed Forces in the country’s politics in 1999, after a brief and tumultuous interlude with democracy.

M. Asghar Khan was born in Jammu, Kashmir in 1921, and was educated at the Prince of Wales’s Royal Indian Military College Dehra Dun. He joined the Indian Military in 1939 and was commissioned in the ‘Royal Deccan Horse’ in 1940. He is the author of a number of books, Pakistan at the Cross Roads, Generals in Politics, and Islam, Politics and the State—The Pakistan Experience.