The 2005 edition of Ethnologue reports that there are some 2. 2 million speakers ; 90 % of those live in Pakistan, mainly in the region of Balochistan.

The reactor is also marketed abroad and there are CANDU-type units operating in India, Pakistan, Argentina, South Korea, Romania and China.

About 6million fled as Afghan refugees to Pakistan and Iran, and from there over 38, 000 made it to the United States and many more to the European Union.

According to Encyclopædia Britannica, " Although there was a clear Muslim majority in Kashmir before the 1947 partition and its economic, cultural, and geographic contiguity with the Muslim-majority area of the Punjab ( in Pakistan ) could be convincingly demonstrated, the political developments during and after the partition resulted in a division of the region.

In the current parliamentary system, the President of Pakistan is the largely ceremonial head of state, the Prime Minister is head of government, and there is a multi-party system.

* In India and Pakistan, there are a number of flavored varieties both in locally made and multi-national brands, such as Lay's.

The organization then moved parts of its work out of Afghanistan into Pakistan and established their main base there to work for Afghan women.

There is considerable racial segregation in the United Arab Emirates, where there are areas that house large numbers of South Asian migrant workers ( primarily Indian, as well as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka ).

* Tens of thousands of Afghan refugees stream toward the closed borders with Iran and Pakistan ( there are already two million refugees in each country from the twenty years of Afghani-Soviet War then Afghan Civil War ).

All borders have been closed, Pakistan may accept more refugees although there are already 2 million from the previous 23 years of war.

Two thousand years later, there are still communities in Pakistan and Afghanistan, like the Kalash, who claim to be descended from Greek settlers.

A consistent demographic fact is that in all recorded famines, male mortality exceeds female, even in those populations ( such as northern India and Pakistan ) where there is a male longevity advantage during normal times.

After China and India, there is a second tier of smaller countries with large water deficits — Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Mexico, and Pakistan.

According to an article in Nature by Philip Ball, while there are various evidences for silk production in China back to around 2570 BC, newly discovered silk objects from the Indus valley in eastern Pakistan are believed to date from between 2450 BC and 2000 BC, " making them similarly ancient ".

Since then, there have been many reported cases of such attacks taking place in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.

Although it may never be known how many civilians have died as a result of U. S. drone strikes in Pakistan, there are estimates of hundreds or thousands of innocent bystanders who have perished in such attacks.

Hindu and Sikh leaders also accused Patel and other leaders of not taking Pakistan sufficiently to task over the attacks on their communities there, and Muslim leaders further criticised him for allegedly neglecting the needs of Muslims leaving for Pakistan, and concentrating resources for incoming Hindu and Sikh refugees.

As of 2009, there were 27 million Pashtuns living in Pakistan.

Its best known section has been the Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire of France, but today there are also sizeable and influential sections in Portugal, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Pakistan and several other countries.

In some countries, such as Pakistan, Israel, Thailand and several African nations, there is a strong relationship between the military and the principal national airlines, and many airline pilots come from the military ; however, that is no longer the case in the United States and Western Europe.

As Pakistan has a large devout Muslim population, there are also many supporters of these Islamic organisations, which include many members of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda ousted from Afghanistan in 2002.

Because Karachi is on the Southern coast of Pakistan, security is believed to be less strict than it is in Northern cities like Islamabad, and so targets there are considered more vulnerable than elsewhere by terrorists.

And while the nation was formerly named `` The Islamic Republic of Pakistan '', it is now simply `` The Republic of Pakistan ''.

It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and the east, Iran in the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China in the far northeast.

The Armenian economy's competitiveness is low and stagnating according to the Global Competitiveness Index, in which Armenia's ranking slipped from 80th out of 132 countries in 2006-2007 index to 93rd out of 131 countries in the 2007-2008 index ( just below Libya, Namibia, Georgia, Serbia and Pakistan ).

* 1989 – Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restoring democracy for the first time since 1972.

* 1960 – Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.

* 1947 – Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.

* 1947 – The Radcliffe Line, the border between Dominion of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.

Diamond Jubilee Schools for girls were established throughout the remote Northern Areas of what is now Pakistan.

National tree plantation day of Pakistan ( قومی شجر کاری دن ) is celebrated on 18 August.

In certain Common Law jurisdictions, such as India or Pakistan, the power to pass such writs is a Constitutionally guaranteed power.

In the year 1893, during rule of Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, a Royal Commission for setting up of Boundary between Afghanistan and British Governed India was set up to negotiate terms with the British, for the agreeing to the Durand line, and the two parties camped at Parachinar, now part of FATA Pakistan, which is near Khost, Afghanistan.

The Arabian Sea ( Persian Sea ) is a region of the Indian Ocean bounded on on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the south by northeastern Somalia, on the east by India and on the west by the Arabian Peninsula.

It is an inlet of the Arabian Sea indenting the sandy Makran coast at the Iran – Pakistan border.

From the 8th century to the 9th century, many inhabitants of what is present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and areas of northern India were converted to Sunni Islam.

It is surmised from the writings of Al Biruni that some Pashtuns living in Pakhtunkhwa ( present-day western Pakistan ) had not been completely converted.

During the 8th through the 9th centuries, many inhabitants of what is present-day Afghanistan and western Pakistan were converted to Sunni Islam.

Besides Turkic people, large part of the Ghaznavid Empire was made up of local Muslim Afghans from what is now Afghanistan and western parts of Pakistan.

The Ghaznavid military incursions assured the domination of Sunni Islam in what is now Afghanistan and western Pakistan.

In 1749 the Mughal ruler ceded sovereignty over what is now Pakistan and northwestern India to the Afghans.

A Commando Battalion in the Pakistan Army is named Yaldaram Battalion after him.

Brahui ( Urdu: براہوی ) or Brahvi ( براوی ) is a Dravidian language spoken by Brahui people of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran, and expatriate communities in Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Iraq.

Brahui is spoken in the southwest region of Pakistan, as well as regions of Afghanistan and Iran which border Pakistan ; however, many members of the ethnic group no longer speak Brahui.