Overtaken By Events

Overtaken By Events: A Pakistan Road Trip is the account of Ethan Casey's journey, entirely overland, starting in Mumbai, India - just three months after the November 2008 terrorist siege of that city - and ending six weeks later in Karachi, Pakistan. Beautifully illustrated by 32 pages of photographs by Pete Sabo, the book documents the human dimension of Pakistanis' experience of contemporary history since 2004. Updating the story told in Casey's acclaimed travel book Alive and Well in Pakistan (2004), Overtaken By Events humanizes Pakistan and Pakistains for a volatile period in a chronically volatile country, from the shocking assassination of Benazir Bhutto to the heartening "lawyers' movement" for the restoration of an independent judiciary. It also offers Indian views of Pakistan and glimpses of the situation of Muslims in India. The title says it all. As Emma Duncan observed two decades ago in Breaking the Curfew, "Nothing is settled in Pakistan...Every small event may hold the key to denouement." Overtaken By Events is a unique record of an action-packed time and place, written in graceful and entertaining prose.