Line #26 UsefulNotes/Pakistan


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2	[[caption-width-right:330:[[BilingualBonus Land of the Pure.]]]]
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4	->''"Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. [[OurFounder Mohammad Ali Jinnah]] did all three."''
5	-->--'''Stanley Wolpert'''
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7	Pakistan ('''Urdu:''' پاکستان Pākstān), officially known as The Islamic Republic of Pakistan ('''Urdu:''' اسلامی جمہوریۂ پاكستان‎, Islāmī Jumhūriyah-yi Pākstān), is a nation in South Asia that was formed from the Muslim majority provinces of UsefulNotes/TheRaj. Before then, the country had largely the same history as other parts of the Raj: UsefulNotes/{{India}} and UsefulNotes/{{Bangladesh}}.
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9	The Indus River, which gave India its name, is mostly located in Pakistan. As a result, Pakistan was site of the Indian subcontinent's oldest civilization, the Indus Valley Civilization. The ruins of Mohenjo-daro and Taxila, both important IVC cities, are located in the country. Due to its location at the doorstep of Central and West Asia, it witnessed countless wars between India and its invading power. The Indus was the eastern extremity of UsefulNotes/TheAchaemenidEmpire and UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat's Macedonian empire. It was also the easternmost extent of the first three Islamic caliphates (from the 650s to the 860s), making it the first region of the subcontinent to be Islamized.
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11	The plan to divide the continent along religious lines [[OlderThanTheyThink was not a new one]]; the British tried to divide Bengal into a Hindu and Muslim part in 1905. Moreover, partition was not a policy forcefully imposed by colonialism. Indians had been discussing what form an independent India should or could take for decades prior, and partition was a major movement. In fact, the Muslim minority insisted on it, together with the leader of the Muslim League, Mohammad Ali Jinnah. It was thought that the two religions could not coexist in India without one inevitably dominating the other, and therefore the Muslims feared being trapped in a unified India where the Hindus would be a majority. Supporters of partition regarded supporters of a unified India (like Gandhi) as either hopeless idealists or Hindu nationalists. It wasn't until after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII that the plan eventually came to fruition. However, the implementation of dividing the country along religious lines meant slicing the border through formerly-unified provinces, like the Punjab and Bengal. The Muslims of Bengal were in a unified state with the ethnically diverse Muslims of West Pakistan, meaning East and West Pakistan were geographically separated by ''2000 km'' of India. Significant Muslim and Hindu minorities also remained in these newly independent states, and suddenly those who found themselves on the wrong side of the border desperately scrambled to get across, as each country "cleansed" itself of Muslims and Hindus, leading to bloodbaths and unspeakable suffering. However, while Pakistan has largely cleansed itself of non-Muslims (the country is 97% Muslim), many Muslims remained in India, who today form 15% of the population.
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13	Despite the geographic divide, relations between the two Pakistans were stable until the late 1950s, when the military staged its first coup. The government's heavy-handed measures to bring East Pakistan -- which it considered as expendable despite housing more than 50% of the population -- into submission gradually fed anger into the region's population. Since the East was overwhelmingly dominated by one ethnic group (the Bengalis) and was basically a nation state, unlike the West, the anger spread fast and wide. Following the arbitrary dismissal of the pro-East cabinet that governed the union in 1970 and terrible relief efforts towards a cyclone that hit the East the same year, resulting in over 500,000 deaths and $86 million in property damage, the East's independence movement truly began. West Pakistan infamously responded by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_atrocities a state-sponsored massacre]] (with some calling it a genocide) in 1971. East Pakistan declared independence, with India's help, through the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Liberation_War Bangladesh Liberation War]], after which West Pakistan became just Pakistan and East Pakistan became Bangladesh. The Bangladeshi Genocide and subsequent independence, in a sense, proved the falseness of the theory at the heart of Pakistani statehood: that the defining characteristic of Muslim Indians was their religion, not their ethnicity.
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15	Pakistan and India [[ArchEnemy really do not get along]], although they maintain embassies in each other's capitals. The two fought a total of four wars: in 1947, 1965, 1971, and 1999. The first time, it was the beginning of UsefulNotes/TheKashmirQuestion, whose details are best described in that page. In the end, India gained the better part of the deal with the fertile and populous Kashmir Valley and the majority of ethnic Kashmiris, though Pakistan still captured a large territory (a small amount of Kashmir proper and most of the Karakoram). The 1971 war, on the other hand, was coterminous with the Bangladesh Liberation War. It should be noted that both countries have tried multiple peace overtures over the years, but every negotiation inevitably leads to Kashmir, on which nobody is willing to back down.
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17	Pakistan's relations with UsefulNotes/{{Afghanistan}} have also been consistently frosty, popularly seen as beginning with the Afghan civil war but actually dating back earlier. Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, called the Durand Line, was carved by the British in 1893 following the Second Anglo-Afghan War, separating the ethnic Pashtuns who live on both sides of the border. Needless to say, the Pashtun-dominated Afghan government wasn't happy about this and tried many times to cross over the Line and occupy the Pashtun-populated areas. [[CurbStompBattle They didn't end well]]. Afghanistan eventually gave up in 1976, just a few years before its civil war pitted the American and Pakistani-backed Mujahideen (formed from religious schools of Afghan refugees in Pakistan; during the [[UsefulNotes/SovietInvasionOfAfghanistan Soviet invasion]], about three million refugees fled to Pakistan) against the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]]. It is, in effect, an open secret that Pakistan hosts and supports various extremist groups with the goal of destabilizing Afghanistan. Pakistan, in turn, accuses Afghanistan of harboring an unrelated militant group (Tehrik-i-Taliban) who has staged deadly attacks on Pakistani soil.
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19	In contrast to its bad relations with its two biggest neighbors, Pakistan is becoming close to its other neighbor: UsefulNotes/{{China}}. China has invested billions of dollars into Pakistan as part of its Belt and Road initiative and, to Pakistan's relief, is neutral about the Kashmir Question. Pakistan in turn supports China's position in world disputes, which controversially includes avoiding the subject of UsefulNotes/{{Xinjiang}}. Pakistan also maintains a working relationship with UsefulNotes/{{Iran}}, despite sectarian differences and Iran's concern of Pakistan being used as a proxy of its archenemies the US and UsefulNotes/SaudiArabia, and [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/01/11/iran-is-popular-in-pakistan-overwhelmingly-disliked-everywhere-else/ Pakistanis have consistently viewed Iran positively]], in contrast to its bad press in other parts of the world.
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21	Relations with the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates have seen their ups and downs. Pakistan joined the West during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, denying the Soviet Union from accessing another warm water port. However, the US increasingly started to question the relationship come the brutal response to Bangladesh's independence movement, followed by Pakistan [[UsefulNotes/PakAttack researching and developing nuclear weapons]] to catch up with [[UsefulNotes/TheThirdEyeOfBharat India]]. The 9/11 attacks and [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror subsequent invasion of Afghanistan]] energized the relationship, with Pakistan providing the West with information and bases to attack al-Qaeda. It turned sour again when America became more critical of Pakistan's supposedly total unhelpful actions and allegations that it houses the Taliban and other militant groups. The relationship reached its nadir in 2011, when a secretive operation conducted by the US Navy SEAL assassinated UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden at Abbottabad, a city located less than 150 km away from Islamabad and just a few blocks away from a military outpost. The operation was done without input from the Pakistani side, because the US feared that doing so somehow would leak the information to bin Laden and allow him ample time to flee, [[NotHelpingYourCase a fear that was vindicated]] with the revelation that he had been living in Pakistan undisturbed for ''several years'' (the common belief at the time was that bin Laden engineered his operations from Afghanistan), meaning that one way or another, the country did have a hand in sheltering him.
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23	Until recently, the country was a primarily agricultural economy. Industries and services have since gone up, with the latter sector eclipsing agriculture in the labor market in TheNewTens. The country's main export is textile, while it heavily imports oil, natural gas, and machinery. Pakistan is considered a lower-middle income country and the 39th largest economy in the world.
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25	Pakistan is nominally TheFederation, though in practice its more like TheRepublic (and to its detractors, TheEmpire) consisting of the four major provinces (population given as of 2017):
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27	* '''Punjab''' (Population: 110,012,442. Capital: Lahore) \
28	The industrial and agricultural heartland and most populated of the provinces. Punjabis dominate the province, though it should be noted that Punjabi is itself a macrolanguage with many divergent dialects, so don't be surprised if they refuse to consider themselves Punjabi, instead preferring the cities where they come from as their identifier. As a rule of thumb, Punjabi proper is spoken upstream of the confluence of the Rivers Chenab, Jhelum, and Ravi (including the cities of Lahore, Faisalabad, and Gujranwala). Downstream and west of the confluence centered on Multan, the people speak the Saraiki dialect. Northwest of the Jhelum is Pothohari Plateau, which is home to two Punjabi dialects: Hindko in the west and Pahari-Pothwari in the east. Islamabad's twin city, Rawalpindi, lies in the intersection of these two dialect areas.\
29	Punjab was one of the rare regions literally split in half during the 1947 Partition and suffered immensely from it; as of today, Pakistani Punjab is virtually 100% Muslim, whereas Indian Punjab is virtually 100% not-Muslim (although this can be attributed more to East Punjab being devolved into three different states, as it caused what is left of its Muslim minority to be assigned in another state, Haryana).
30	* '''Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP)''' (Population: 40,525,047. Capital: Peshawar)\
31	The smallest province by land area. It is geographically divided into two parts: a highly rugged north (the Hindu Kush mountain range) and comparatively low and fertile south. It is known for its [[SceneryPorn natural beauty]], with one particular area, the Swat Valley, earning the moniker "Switzerland of the East".\
32	The province is part of "Pashtunistan", an area that stretches into Afghanistan and inhabited by the Pashtuns, like their Kurdish cousins in the Middle East, known for their ProudWarriorRaceGuy tendencies, tribal structures, and, curiously enough, one of the nicest and friendliest personalities on the planet according to many people who have visited. Their language, Pashto is spoken by up to 60 million people worldwide, making it the largest surviving member of Eastern Iranian language family by a wide margin (the next largest, Ossetian, has less than a million speakers). Pashto as spoken in KP has two major dialects: Central (incl. Dera Ismail Khan and Bannu) and Northern (incl. Mingora and Peshawar). Many Pashtuns have given a middle finger to the border that separates their homeland and have waged a long, long struggle against both governments in an attempt to preserve their homeland. Until recently, the province was infamous for being a terrorist hotspot (thanks to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban) and was once considered even more violent than the longtime ButtMonkey Balochistan. After 2014 and Operation Zarb-e-Azb however, violence has been significantly reduced and the province is slowly regaining its pre-2004 top tourist destination status.\
33	The northernmost part of the province reaches the tip of the Karakoram mountain range, which is otherwise located in Gilgit-Baltistan. This region is outside of Pashtunistan. Many different mountain tribes live here, including the Gurjars, Khowars and Kohistanis.
34	** '''Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)'''\
35	The one part of Pashtunistan that is even wilder than KP, being only nominally under the control of Islamabad since colonial times. This region was governed under the colonial-era Frontier Crimes Regulations, which among other things denied its citizens the right to appeal to normal courts and handed out punishments to entire tribes for the wrongs of one. In 2018, the cabinet proposed a bill to merge the territory with KP. The bill successfully passed through the National Assembly, the Senate, and the Regional Assembly of KP.
36	* '''Balochistan''' (Population: 12,344,408. Capital: Quetta)\
37	The largest province by land area and the smallest by population, it also happens to be the most resource-rich. The province is a plateau barricaded by mountains to the east and west, making it very dry and hot. The greater Balochistan area stretches into Afghanistan and UsefulNotes/{{Iran}}. The province is also the poorest and most conflict-ridden, with a Baloch secession movement being the longest-lasting (it has been going since 1948, seemingly with no end in sight). Demographically, Balochs are dominant in Southern Balochistan (i.e., everywhere south of Quetta) and they live side by side with the Brahui, with whom they established states together before Pakistan's creation. North of Quetta, Pashtuns are the majority. Quetta lies between these two areas and the city has sometimes witnessed ugly ethnic conflicts among the three ethnic groups. Speaking of Balochs and Brahui, the two have an interesting history. Since Balochs speak a Western Iranian language (its closest relatives are Mazandaran and Talysh, spoken in Iran's Caspian Sea coast), they are theorized to be medieval-era migrants from Persia. As for the Brahui, their language is classified as Dravidian, of the same family as Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada from Southern India. Scholars are divided whether they are the remnant of the once-widespread range of the Dravidians in the northern Indian subcontinent, or recent migrants who arrived from Southern India, possibly as late as the 14th century CE.
38	* '''Sindh''' (Population: 47,886,051. Capital: UsefulNotes/{{Karachi}})\
39	The second most populous province and the business hub of the country. Karachi, the state capital, is the largest city and port hub in Pakistan. The eastern part of the province blends in with the Thar Desert, the subcontinent's largest. Sindhi is the first language for most of the province except for Karachi and Hyderabad, where its position is taken by Urdu.
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41	Pakistan also has one federally administered territory:
42	* '''Islamabad Capital Territory''' (Population: 2,006,572)\
43	Sandwiched between the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces is the purpose-built Pakistani capital of Islamabad. It is the smallest and least populous first-level administrative division of Pakistan.
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45	And its two disputed holdings in the Kashmir Region (which are a cross between a protectorate, a puppet state, and a province). Note that these two have not been fully integrated into Pakistan, in pursuant to UN-mediated talks. In other words, the people here are not entitled to the same rights as Pakistani citizens, and thus cannot vote and elect members to the Federal Assembly. Self-governance was denied to them at first, too, but it was eventually given in 1975 (Azad Kashmir) and 2009 (Gilgit-Baltistan):
46	* '''Azad Kashmir''' (Population: 4,045,366. Capital: Muzaffarabad, Largest city: New Mirpur City)\
47	The smaller of the two territories of Pakistani-administered Kashmir. The province's name translates to "Free Kashmir", though some people might challenge that title, since freedom is carefully controlled and a sensitive issue. Despite the name, ethnic Kashmiris constitute a minority of the population (they are mainly found in the Kashmir Valley, located in India's share of the region). Instead, Punjabis speaking the Pahari-Pothwari dialect are the majority. One interesting fact about the region is that it contributed the largest share of Pakistani diaspora in the United Kingdom: the Mirpuri Punjabis, who make up about 70% of British Pakistanis.
48	* '''Gilgit-Baltistan''' (Population: 2,441,523. Capital: Gilgit. Largest city: Skardu)\
49	The larger of the two territories of Pakistani-administered Kashmir and Pakistan's northernmost first-level administrative division. The Himalayas/Karakoram cross the region and thus, mountains, glaciers, and harsh winters, are common sights/occurrences; five "eight thousanders" are found here, including the second-highest mountain in the world, K2. As can be inferred from its name, it is made of two distinct regions: Baltistan, surrounding Skardu and home of the Balti, a Tibetan people; and Gilgit, where the state capital is located. Gilgit itself can be divided into two cultural areas: the territory surrounding the titular city, which is inhabited by the Shina (an ethnic group close to Kashmiris); and Hunza Valley, home of the Burusho, who speak a language isolate called Burushaski. North of Hunza is the Khunjereb Pass, the location of a highway to China.
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51	Leaders of note:
52	* Muhammad Ali Jinnah - Pakistan's founder and first governor-general. Also known as the [[FanNickname Quaid-e-Azam]]. Died almost exactly a year after independence.
53	* Field Marshal Muhammad Ayub Khan - Pakistan's first military dictator, ruling from 1958 to 1969. Before that was Pakistan's first native to head the Pakistan Army, and before that served with UsefulNotes/KiplingsFinest against the Japanese in Burma during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Under his rule, Pakistan joined the West's side in the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, the economy did well (at the cost of increasing the wealth gap), before he screwed up by fighting a war with India in 1965 that ended up crashing Pakistan's economy and sowing the seeds of the Bengali independence movement. He was relieved from his position by his own junta in 1969.
54	* General Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan - Ayub's successor, he ruled from 1969 til 1971. Presided over what was to be Pakistan's first free and fair elections...that subsequently led to political deadlock and forced him to choose sides, eventually causing the disasterous 1971 war that broke Pakistan in two and caused him to resign in disgrace. Also served with UsefulNotes/KiplingsFinest prior to independence.
55	* Zulfikar Ali Bhutto - First leader of post-1971 Pakistan, and first leader of the Pakistan People's Party. Nationalized many institutions and industries, creating many enemies. Overthrown in 1977 and subsequently executed by his successor.
56	* General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq - Currently the record holder of longest lasting leader of Pakistan at 11 years from 1977 til his mysterious death in 1988. Known for his involvement in opposing the UsefulNotes/SovietInvasionOfAfghanistan and for his Islamization policies.
57	* Benazir Bhutto - First (and thus far, only) woman prime minister of Pakistan (from 1988 until 1990 and from 1993 until 1996), and first female leader in the Muslim world in modern times, daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Assassinated in a bombing in 2007.
58	* Nawaz Sharif - TheRival to Benazir Bhutto and leader of his own faction of the Pakistan Muslim League. Started out as a steel magnate, and got into politics when his family's business became one of the victims of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's nationalization schemes. Credited for attempting peace with India ([[FailureIsTheOnlyOption before Kargil ruined it]]) and for detonating the world's first "Islamic nuke". He also initiated Operation Zarb-e-Azb, which was credited for stabilizing the country after years of militant threat. Currently Pakistan's only PM to have more than two terms under his belt, although his third term was cut short by the Panama Papers corruption scandal. The subsequent trial barred him from participating in politics for good.
59	* General Pervez Musharraf - Called [[FanNickname The Commando]] for his stint in the Pakistan special forces, he was Pakistan's 4th military dictator and harbinger of the 3rd military era of Pakistan. His supporters consider him a Pakistani Mustafa Kemal Ataturk or George Washington. His critics put him somewhere between GeneralRipper and MilesGloriosus. His tenure is most noted for his involvement in UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror as a close ally of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush. Was later forced to resign and go into exile following his ouster of the Chief Justice of the Pakistan Supreme Court in 2007, his fate later sealed by the assassination of Benazir Bhutto later that year. Eventually came back to run in the 2013 elections, only to be subsequently arrested and put on trial for treason. Mostly because he thought he was still popular based on ''facebook likes''.
60	* Asif Ali Zardari - Widower of Benazir Bhutto and father of the current party chairman. Served as President of Pakistan after Musharraf and is generally considered not only an accidental president, but possibly the most corrupt and incompetant leader in recent memory.
61	* Imran Khan - Former cricket star, he entered politics after creating the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party in 1996. Was elected into premiership position in 2018; unseated by a parliamentary no-confidence vote in 2022.
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63	The origin of UsefulNotes/PakistanisWithPanters and UsefulNotes/PakAttack.
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66	!!Famous Pakistanis/people of Pakistani descent:
67	* See also PakistaniMedia.
68	* Tan France (born Tanveer Safdar), British-American fashion designer and the first out gay Muslim in Western television. Best known as part of the new Fab Five in Netflix's ''Series/{{Queer Eye\|2018}}''.
69	* American pro wrestler Wrestling/MustafaAli (real name Adeel Alam) was born to a Pakistani father and an Indian mother.
70	* Music/{{Zayn}} of Music/OneDirection fame was born in England to a Pakistani immigrant father.
71	* Jahan and Yasmin Yousaf, the sister duo of Music/{{Krewella}}, are of Pakistani descent on their father's side.
72	* Jamsher Khan, World Squash Champion crowned in 1993
73	* Imran Khan, captain of the Cricket World Cup winning team in 1992, founder of Pakistan’s only cancer hospital and politician.
74	* So far, there have been two Pakistani Nobel Prize laureates:
75	** Abdus Salam, recipient of the 1979 Nobel Physics Prize for contribution to the electroweak unification theory, alongside Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg of the United States. Unfortunately he had to flee Pakistan due to him being a member of the persecuted (considered heretical) Ahmadiya sect of Islam.
76	** Malala Yousafzai, recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for her activism in female education, and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She lived through the Insurgency in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, during which her hometown was occupied by the Pakistani Taliban, and was subject to an assassination attempt, but survived and was airlifted to England, where she remains to this day.
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78	!!Pakistan in fiction:
79	!!!Films
80	* ''Film/BigBrother2018'': Zufa is half-UsefulNotes/{{Pakistan}}i, having a Pakistani dad and a Chinese mom. However, because of his race he's not taken seriously by most people, and treated badly by the police. Henry helps him fulfill his dreams of becoming a musician.
81	* ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'': After ruining the drug smuggling scheme of the film's BigBadDuumvirate in Afghanistan and hijacking a C-130 Hercules from them, Film/JamesBond and Kara Milovy land (with a jeep) in Pakistan once the plane runs out of fuel, and it crashes in a mountain. Bond then tells Kara that he knows a good restaurant in Karachi.
82	* ''Film/VerticalLimit'': A group of mountaineers attempt to climb [=K2=]. [[DwindlingParty It doesn't end well]].
83	* ''Film/EagleEye'': The opening shows a military operation in Balochistan that goes wrong and kills a lot of Americans. This is the StartOfDarkness for the [[AIIsACrapshoot ARIIA]], who regards this as a betrayal to the American people and decides to assassinate the entire executive branch of the US goverment.
84	* ''Film/ZeroDarkThirty'': Deals with the events leading up to Osama bin Laden's death in Abbottabad.
85	* ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'': The assassination of the Pakistani President and the robbery of the country's nuclear warheads are blamed on the Joes, who are subsequently targeted by strikes, killing off [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome Duke]].
86	* ''Film/LondonHasFallen'': The attempted assassination of the main villain, Pakistani arms dealer Aamir Barkawi, in his home sets the film's plot. Barkawi survives the attack, [[YouKilledMyFather but his daughter does not]].
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88	!!!Literature
89	* ''Literature/TheKiteRunner'': Amir reunites with Rahim Khan in Peshawar for the first time since his emigration to the United States. Near the end, he briefly stays in Peshawar following his escape from Afghanistan with Sohrab.
90	* ''Literature/TheReluctantFundamentalist'': Tells the story of a Pakistani living in post-9/11 United States.
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92	!!!Video Games
93	* ''[[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2]]''
94	* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII''
95	* ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''
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97	[[AC:The Pakistani flag]]
98	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/flag_of_pakistan_0.png]]
99	->The green field symbolizes Islam, the majority religion of Pakistan, while the white stripe at the hoist denotes religious minorities. The crescent and star are also symbols of Islam, but each also represent progress and light, respectively.
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101	[[AC:State emblem of Pakistan]]
102	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/state_emblem_of_pakistan.png]]
103	->The emblem was adopted in 1954 to symbolize the ideological foundation, the basis of the economy, the cultural heritage and the guiding principles of the country.
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105	[[AC:The Pakistani national anthem]]
106	->پاک سرزمین شاد باد
107	->کشورِ حسین شاد باد
108	->تُو نشانِ عزمِ عالی شان
109	->ارضِ پاکستان!‏
110	->مرکزِ یقین شاد باد
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112	->پاک سرزمین کا نظام
113	->قوّتِ اُخوّتِ عوام
114	->قوم، ملک، سلطنت
115	->پائندہ تابندہ باد!‏
116	->شاد باد منزلِ مراد
117
118	->پرچمِ ستارہ و ہلال
119	->رہبرِ ترقّی و کمال
120	->ترجمانِ ماضی، شانِ حال
121	->!جانِ استقبال
122	->سایۂ خدائے ذوالجلال
123	[[note]]
124	->Paak sarzameen shaad baad
125	->Kishvari haseen shaad baad
126	->Too nishaani azmi aalee shaan
127	->Arzi Paakistaan!
128	->Markazi yaqeen shaad baad
129
130	->Paak sarzameen kaa nizaam
131	->Quvvati Ukhuvvati avaam
132	->Qaum, mulk, saltanat
133	->Paayindah taabindah baad!
134	->Shaad baad manzili muraad
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136	->Parcami sitaarah o hilaal
137	->Rahbari taraqqee o kamaal
138	->Tarjumaani maazee, shaani haal
139	->Jaani istiqbaal!
140	->Saayahyi Khudaayi Zoo l'jalaal
141	[[/note]]
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143	--
144
145	->Blessed be the sacred land,
146	->Happy be the bounteous realm.
147	->Thou symbol of high resolve,
148	->O Land of Pakistan!
149	->Blessed be the citadel of faith.
150
151	->The order of this sacred land,
152	->The might of the brotherhood of the people,
153	->May the nation, the country, and the state,
154	->Shine in glory everlasting!
155	->Blessed be the goal of our ambition.
156
157	->The flag of the crescent and star,
158	->Leads the way to progress and perfection,
159	->Interpreter of our past, glory of our present,
160	->inspiration for our future!
161	->Shade of God, the Glorious and Mighty.
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163	[[AC:Government]]
164	* Federal parliamentary constitutional republic
165	** President: Asif Ali Zardari
166	** Prime Minister: Shehbaz Sharif
167	** Chairman of the Senate: - (vacant)
168	** Speaker of the National Assembly: Ayaz Sadiq
169	** Chief Justice: Qazi Faez Isa
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171	[[AC:Miscellaneous]]
172	* '''Capital:''' Islamabad
173	* '''Largest city:''' Karachi
174	* '''Population:''' 225,199,937
175	* '''Area:''' 881,913 sq km (340,509 sq mi) (33rd)
176	* '''Currency''': Pakistani rupee (₨) (PKR)
177	* '''ISO-3166-1 Code:''' PK
178	* '''Country calling code:''' 92
179	* '''Highest point:''' Two candidates.
180	** Pakistan-claimed territory: K2 (8,611 m/28,251 ft), in Kashmir on the border of lands currently administered by China and India (2nd)
181	** Undisputed territory: Tirich Mir (7,708 m/25,289 ft) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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