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A map outlining historical sites in Pakistan. The history of Pakistan precedes the country's creation in 1947. [1] Although, Pakistan was created in 1947 as a whole new country by the British [2] through partition of India, but the history of the land extends much further back and is intertwined with that of Afghanistan, India, and Iran.
The word Hindko, commonly used to refer to a number of Indo-Aryan dialects spoken in the neighbourhood of Pashto, likely originally meant "the Indo Aryan language" (in contrast to Pashto). [10] An alternative local name for this language group is Hindki. [11] [a] A speaker of Hindko may be referred to as Hindki, Hindkun, or Hindkowan (Hindkuwan ...
A new series of notes was released in 1972, under the name of the State Bank of Pakistan rather than the Government of Pakistan. These had an Urdu overprint as well as an English one, saying "For Haj [sic] pilgrims from Pakistan for use in Saudi Arabia only". New notes were printed in 1975 and 1978, reflecting changes in the standard notes. [20]
t. e. Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai ( Sindhi: شاه عبداللطيف ڀٽائي; 1689/1690 – 21 December 1752), commonly known by the honorifics Lakhino Latif, Latif Ghot, Bhittai, and Bhit Jo Shah, was a Sindhi Sufi mystic and poet from Pakistan, widely considered to be the greatest poet of the Sindhi language . Born to a Kazmi Sayyid ...
The story of history of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan began on 14 August 1947 when the country came into being in the form of Dominion of Pakistan within the British Commonwealth as the result of Pakistan Movement and the partition of India. While the history of the Pakistani Nation according to the Pakistan government's official chronology ...
020/.92/4 B 19. LC Class. Z720.K54 M35 1987. A Short History of Pakistan is an edited book published by University of Karachi Press and comprises four volumes. The book is edited by Prof Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi and provides a comprehensive account of the history of the Pakistan region and its people from the prehistory leading to the creation ...
The political history of Pakistan ( Urdu: پاکستان کی سیاسی تاريخ) is the narrative and analysis of political events, ideas, movements, and leaders of Pakistan. Pakistan gained independence from the United Kingdom on 14 August 1947, when the Presidencies and provinces of British India were divided by the United Kingdom, in a ...
Exclusive economic zone. 290,000 km 2 (110,000 sq mi) The Geography of Pakistan ( Urdu: جغرافیۂ پاکِستان) encompasses a wide variety of landscapes varying from plains to deserts, forests, and plateaus ranging from the coastal areas of the Indian Ocean in the south to the mountains of the Karakoram, Hindukush, Himalayas ranges in ...