Pakistan

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how are u????hope u all in the good shape... today, i am going to share a knowledge about Pakistan....but, i wont upload all my work, as i am feared someone might plagiarized it.... so, i will share with u about the history of Pakistan.... and i will cited the link that i have used in doing my assignment....

Pakistan, an acronym, was originally thought up in England by a group of Muslim intellectuals. P for the Punjabis, A for the Afghans, K for the Kashmiris, S for Sind and the “tan”, they say, for Balochistan.[1] This term is believed has been invented in 1933 by a group of Punjabi Muslim students at Cambridge University.[2]

Historically, Pakistan was under the territory of India, but, due to idea of Pakistan by Iqbal, where basically the idea is to establish an Islamic state as quoted by Liaquat Ali Khan in the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan that is:

“Pakistan was founded because the Muslims of this sub-continent wanted to build up their lives in accordance with the teaching and tradition of Islam, because they wanted to demonstrate to the world that Islam provides a panacea to the many diseases which have crept into the life of humanity today”[3]

The emergence of Pakistan was come from the ideology of two nation that proposed by Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Founder of Pakistan, who later died of tuberculosis in 1948)[4]. The idea of two-nation theory, which I believed was the reinterpretation of Sir Sayyid’s theory:

“Sir Sayyid’s theory was that Muslims and Hindus represent two distinct nations and he expressed a prophetic fear that open hostility might result in the future.”[5]

On July 14, 1947, House of Common passed the India Independence Act, by which two independent dominions were created on the sub-continent which are the area of Punjab and Bengal. However, the eastern wing later separated and form a country named Bangladesh on 26 March 1971. Basically, this is the chronology or background of a country named Pakistan.

Geographically, Pakistan is located at Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea, between India on the east, and Iran and Afghanistan on the west and China in the north. The total area of Pakistan is 796, 095 sq km which consists of 770, 875 sq km of land and 25, 220 sq km of water. The population of Pakistan is estimated of 184, 404, 791 and almost 95% of its population is Muslim, while other is 5%.[6]

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[1] Making Sense of Pakistan By Farzana Shaikh (Published by C. Hurst & Co. Ltd)

[2] Subalterns and Raj, South Asia since 1600 by Crispin Bates,  (Published by Routledge)

[3] PAKISTAN: Its Ideology and Foreign Policy by Arif Hussain, (Published by Frank Cass & Co. Ltd.)

[4] Subalterns and Raj, South Asia since 1600 by Crispin Bates,(Published by Routledge)

[5] PAKISTAN: Its Ideology and Foreign Policy by Arif Hussain, (Published by Frank Cass & Co. Ltd.)

[6] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/pk.html (retrieved at 10.00pm on 27 of February 2011)

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