The story behind Agency Rules: Never an Easy Day at the Office
“When you are so hungry for peace
that you are blind to atrocities, you are no longer sovereign or
free.”
What’s it like to live in a country
where you live in fear every time you leave the house? To live in an
urban city under siege from criminals and gangs that operate under
the unbridled support of political parties and terrorists alike, with
police taking their share to the look the other way? Where bomb
blasts and terrorist attacks become part of the nature of the country
and people become desensitized to the blood and carnage with each
passing day? What’s it like to have 90 million people suffering
from Stockholm Syndrome believing that negotiating and agreeing to
terrorist demands, the country may become safer, while the other 90
million are screaming for military action?
This is today’s Pakistan and the
place that I call home. What I have just described to you is not all
of what Pakistan is today. It is a nation that is fighting for its
existence in the community of nations, but it is also a nation full
of hard-working, educated, honest people that want to see peace
returned to their country. And there lies the rub…
Over the years, Pakistan has been
infiltrated by traitors to the nation, more interested in bolstering
their offshore bank accounts and assets, than they are in building a
better country. The repercussions are felt like shockwaves throughout
the country every day - an economy in tatters, education non-existent
for those without wealth and employment opportunities unavailable for
those without approach. It’s the same Pakistan that the religious
extremists use to recruit more followers into their holy wars.
Agency
Rules – Never an Easy Day at the Office, rather
than picking up from today, stumbles
The book will take you through the 90s
and the networks that were created within the country’s madrassahs
(religious schools) that today funnel fighters into the al-Qaeda and
the fight against the NATO forces in Afghanistan. It will give you a
picture of Pakistan through one man’s eyes as he fights for his own
identity and place in society. He is the embodiment of the Pakistani
that the world doesn’t see in the headlines or the evening news. As
the honorable soldier, the precision sniper, the intelligence
operative and the conflicted man, Kamal Khan takes you through one of
the greatest adventures before the War on Terror started to a
Pakistan that is at war with itself.
Shrouded in political expediency,
hampered by internal power struggles, international espionage and
doublespeak that makes Washington’s spin doctors proud, Kamal’s
mission is a nightmare of rampant militant fundamentalism that
threatens to choke and take Pakistan hostage. For him, the fight is
not just for freedom, but the survival of a nation.
