Summary of Scott Carney & Jason Miklian's The Vortex

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

#1 Hafiz was a star of the Pakistani team, and he was hosting the Soviet team in Dacca, the Bengali capital. The crowd was divided between cheering for the Punjabi team and the Soviet team.

#2 The Pakistani team was mobbed by the Bengali crowd after their striker scored. The entire team was excited, but the Punjabi players felt something was off. They didn’t understand why the Bengalis weren’t cheering them.

#3 Hafiz’s father was the reason he was retiring from football. He wanted his son to pursue a desk job in the government’s bureaucratic elite, but Hafiz hated politics and avoided it like the plague.

#4 After the game, Hafiz was mobbed by his fans. He was proud of the small Italian scooter he had, but he was also sad that his football career was over. He took the long way back to the university, thinking about the freedom he felt riding his Vespa.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669383444

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#1

Hafiz was a star of the Pakistani team, and he was hosting the Soviet team in Dacca, the Bengali capital. The crowd was divided between cheering for the Punjabi team and the Soviet team.

#2

The Pakistani team was mobbed by the Bengali crowd after their striker scored. The entire team was excited, but the Punjabi players felt something was off. They didn’t understand why the Bengalis weren’t cheering them.

#3

Hafiz’s father was the reason he was retiring from football. He wanted his son to pursue a desk job in the government’s bureaucratic elite, but Hafiz hated politics and avoided it like the plague.

#4

After the game, Hafiz was mobbed by his fans. He was proud of the small Italian scooter he had, but he was also sad that his football career was over. He took the long way back to the university, thinking about the freedom he felt riding his Vespa.

#5

The idea of Pakistan arrived in the early 1930s, taking the political scene by storm. The name wasn’t some ancient tribal homage; it was simply an acronym for the country’s biggest provinces and ethnic groups.

#6

In 1947, the British split the subcontinent into two countries, India and Pakistan. The new country of Pakistan used the old British governing system as a blueprint for how to deal with their eastern wing a thousand miles away. They treated it like a colony, shipping in thousands of police and administrators.

#7

The major was trying to recruit Hafiz to join the army. He explained that the army would give him a steady salary and plenty of room to grow. But Hafiz didn’t see anything worth dying for.

#8

Hafiz decided to join the army, as the National Team’s paltry salaries could not support a family. The army was an honorable profession, and the money was regular enough to start a family.

#9

Pakistan’s president, Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan, was a man of action. He could accomplish any task with the efficiency and unswerving nerve that had been cemented into him from a childhood raised in police stations and then through his decades of military service.

#10

In 1965, Pakistan saw its first strategic edge in a generation. It invaded Kashmir, and India responded by putting harsh military and economic sanctions on Pakistan. The countries began to clash again, and Pakistan found a new friend in China.

#11

After the American sanctions hit Pakistan hard, citizens grew tired of Ayub’s authoritarianism. In 1969, riots broke out over his corrupt rule. Yahya, the man who would become Pakistan’s president, was given the task of holding an election that would bring democracy to the country.

#12

Nixon had a soft spot for Pakistan, and he wanted to help them get a democracy up and running.