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Pakistan demands US share Afghan blueprint...Thursday in Shana Khuwara village in North Waziristan, officials said. Anti-American sentiment is pervasive throughout Pakistan. The Pakistani government publicly condemns the U.S. strikes as violations of its sovereignty, but many... In this article: Pakistan, United States, Taliban, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Yousuf Raza Gilani, North Waziristan, CIA, Anti-American sentiment, and Islamic |
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Reuters | 17 hours ago
FACTBOX: Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba
...Intelligence (ISI) agency. It is the only group not believed to have launched attacks inside Pakistan itself. Analysts ascribe Pakistan's reluctance to act more forcefully against the group to various factors: It would create a...
In this article: Lashkar-e-Taiba, India, Ideology, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Taliban
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washingtonpost.com | 20 hours ago
Pakistan: 8 militants killed in reported US strike
In this article: Taliban, United States, The CIA, Yousuf Raza Gilani, Al-qaida, Afghanistan, North Waziristan, Anti-American sentiment, and Leon Panetta
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U.S. missile strike kills 8 in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Eight Islamist militants were killed in a U.S. missile strike in northwest Pakistan on Friday, officials said, after three policemen were killed in a bomb blast. The attack came shortly before the director...
In this article: United States, Taliban, CIA, Barack Obama, Peshawar, Leon Panetta, Afghanistan, and Islamabad
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Times of India | 1 day ago
Pakistan has nothing to fear from India: Manmohan
...as well. "Now if the Taliban and al-Qaeda type of terror, which in the past was located in Pakistan's FATA, gets transferred to the mainland of Pakistan, I think it has very serious consequences for our own security," he said. "We...
In this article: Manmohan Singh, Taliban, India, US, Afghanistan, Mumbai, Al-Qaeda, Hamid Karzai, and Democracy
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U.S. near end of Pakistan aid review, focus on energy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States expects to complete a review on how to spend $7.5 billion in proposed aid for Pakistan by the end of this month, with an early focus on the country's decrepit energy sector, senior U.S. officials said...
In this article: United States, International Monetary Fund, State Department, Washington, U.S. Agency for International Development, Taliban, Hillary Clinton, and Al Qaeda
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U.S. raises Pakistan pressure: report; bomber kills 4
...since the September 11 attacks on the United States. FACTIONS IGNORED The calls have at times angered Pakistani officials, who say Pakistan has lost far more members of its security forces battling militants on its side of the border than...
In this article: United States, Barack Obama, Taliban, James Jones, Afghanistan, Thomson Reuters, Al Qaeda, and Islamabad
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Pakistan (), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It has a 1,046 kilometre (650 mile) coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and the People's Republic of China in the far northeast. Tajikistan also lies very close to Pakistan but is separated by the narrow Wakhan Corridor. Thus, it occupies a crossroads between South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East.
The region forming modern Pakistan was at the heart of the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation and then later was the recipient of Vedic, Persian, Indo-Greek, Turco-Mongol and Islamic cultures. The area has witnessed invasions and/or settlements by the Indo-Aryans, Persians, Greeks, Arabs, Turks, Afghans, Mongols, Sikhs and the British.
In addition to the Indian independence movement which demanded an independent India, the Pakistan Movement (led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah of the Muslim League), which also sought an independent India, sought an independent state for the majority Muslim populations of the eastern and western regions of British India. The British granted independence and also the creation of the Muslim majority state of Pakistan that comprised the provinces of Sindh, North-West Frontier Province, West Punjab, Balochistan and East Bengal. With the adoption of its constitution in 1956, Pakistan became an Islamic republic. In 1971, a civil war in East Pakistan resulted in the creation of Bangladesh.
- Name:
- Pakistan
- Conventional Long Name:
- Islamic Republic of Pakistan
- Local Name:
- Islāmī Jumhūrī-ye Pākistān
- Capital:
- Islamabad
- Language:
- Punjabi, Pashto, Sindhi,
- Urdu (National)
- English (Government)
- Motto:
- اتحاد، تنظيم، يقين مُحکم
- Largest City:
- Karachi
- Government type:
- Parliamentary republic federal
- Founding Date:
- August 14, 1947
- Formations:
- Declared
- Area:
- 803,940
- GDP (per capita PPP):
- $422.392 billion
- GDP (nominal):
- $164.557 billion
- GPD (nominal) Rank:
- 47th
- GDP (nominal per capita):
- $1,022
- Time Zone:
- PST
- Currency:
- Pakistani Rupee (Rs.)
- Demonym:
- Pakistani
- Drives On:
- left
- Currency (code):
- PKR
- Country Calling Code:
- 92
- ccTLD:
- .pk
- Anthem:
- "Qaumi Tarana"
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