Book containing objectionable material banned

A book titled 'The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power', written by journalist and activist, Tariq Ali and published by Simon and Schuster, has been banned in Pakistan for containing some objectionable material. Tahira Mazhar Ali, mother of the writer, told Business Recorder on Friday that the book is available in India but banned in Pakistan despite induction of a democratic government.
The book was about Pakistan and its fraught relationship with the United States and an accessible and revelatory account of the deepening political crisis engulfing the West's closest ally in the war on terror, by a writer unrivalled in his knowledge of the key players and issues involved. Ali, writer of over a dozen of books, is a frequent contributor to 'The Guardian', 'The Nation' and the 'London Review of Books'. He is also on the editorial board of the New Left Review.
'The banned book is the deep combination of the country's history with the extensive first hand research and practical judgement. Tariq Ali (born 1943) is an author, filmmaker, and historian. He was born in Lahore and grew up in a communist family.
While studying at Punjab University, he organised demonstrations against Pakistan's military dictatorship. He was educated at the Oxford University, where he became involved in student politics, in particular with the movement against the war in Vietnam.
After graduating, he led the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and owned his own independent television production company, Bandung, which produced programmes for Channel 4 in the UK during the 1980s. Ali is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio and contributes articles to different international magazines and newspapers. He is also the editorial director of London publishers,.
His fiction includes a series of historical novels about Islam: Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (1992), The Book of Saladin (1998), The Stone Woman (2000) and A Sultan in Palermo (2005). His non-fiction writing includes 1968:Marching in the Streets (1998), a social history of the 1960s. A book of essays, The Clash of Fundamentalism, was published in 2002.