Hoover Institution (Stanford, CA) — The Hoover Institution Library & Archives has acquired the papers of Shuja Nawaz, an advisor to civil and military leaders and legislators in South Asia, the United States, and Europe, who has held roles at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the World Health Organization.
December 1971
Nawaz was educated at Gordon College, Rawalpindi, and the Graduate School of Journalism of Columbia University in New York, where he was a Cabot Fellow. Early in his career, he was a newscaster and producer for Pakistan Television from 1967 to 1972 and covered the western front of the 1971 war between Pakistan and India as well as President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's visit to China in 1972.
Nawaz has worked for the New York Times and the World Health Organization and has headed three separate divisions at the IMF. He was also a director at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna from 1999 to 2001, while on leave from the IMF. Mr. Nawaz was the managing editor and then editor of Finance & Development, the multilingual quarterly of the IMF and the World Bank. He served on the editorial advisory board of the World Bank Research Observer.
He is the author of The Battle for Pakistan: The Bitter US Friendship and a Tough Neighbourhood (Penguin Random House and Liberty Books 2019, and Rowman & Littlefield 2020) and Crossed Swords: Pakistan, its Army, and the Wars Within (Oxford University Press 2nd edition 2017). He is also the principal author of FATA: A Most Dangerous Place (CSIS, Washington DC January 2009), Pakistan in the Danger Zone: A Tenuous US-Pakistan Relationship (Atlantic Council 2010), Learning by Doing: The Pakistan Army's Experience with Counterinsurgency (Atlantic Council 2011), and with Mohan Guruswamy, with a foreword by former Secretary of State George Shultz, India-Pakistan: The Opportunity Cost of Conflict (Atlantic Council 2014).
His book of verse in English, Journeys, was published originally by Oxford University Press and reissued by Fort Hill in 2017. His second book of verse is The Inner World (Archway 2017).
The Shuja Nawaz Collection is a compendium of his original research, interviews, talks, and related documentation during his long career as a journalist, international civil servant, and expert on greater South Asia, Iran, and the Middle East. His collection includes documents from Pakistan Army General Headquarters on the first Kashmir War; Pakistan's preparations for the first US military aid mission in 1954; material on Pakistan President Yahya Khan regarding the trip of NSA Henry Kissinger to Beijing in 1970; and a Pakistan army self-assessment of the 1971 War. A key document is a letter from Saudi King Saud bin Abdul Aziz to the Governor General of Pakistan in 1954 commenting on the United States' transactional interests in the region. Nawaz also preserved original materials related to the death of his brother, Pakistan Chief of Army Staff General Asif Nawaz, in 1993 under suspicious circumstances, and his own subsequent investigation. Contemporary newspapers and other publications related to militancy, the latest Afghanistan war, and India-Pakistan relations are documented the papers.
The Shuja Nawaz Collection will provide scholars studying military affairs, intelligence history, and great power competition new access to rare primary source materials on Pakistan's military history, U.S. relations, and South Asian geopolitics, including restricted Pakistan Army documents on the Kashmir and 1971 wars and previously unavailable correspondence revealing Cold War regional dynamics.
