Several of these formations are still active, though they now are armoured formations, for example Guides Cavalry in Pakistan.

Ireland making their World Cup debut tied with Zimbabwe and defeated Pakistan to progress to the second round, where they went on to defeat Bangladesh to get promoted to the main ODI table.

Many of the goods that were smuggled into Pakistan have originally entered Afghanistan from Pakistan, where they fell under the Afghan Trade and Transit Agreement ( ATTA ).

Communities such as the Dhond and the Bhittani of Pakistan clearly prefer marriages between cousins as believe they ensure purity of the descent line, provide intimate knowledge of the spouses, and ensure that patrimony will not pass into the hands of " outsiders ".

A boot sector virus dubbed ( c ) Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written.

In March 1940 Jinnah passed what would come to be known as the “ Pakistan Resolution ,” declaring “ Muslims are a nation according to any definition of a nation, and they must have their homelands, their territory and their State .” This state was to be known as Pakistan, meaning “ Land of the Pure .” Nehru angrily declared that “ all the old problems ... pale into insignificance before the latest stand taken by the Muslim League leader in Lahore .” Linlithgow made Nehru an offer on 8 October 1940.

Similarly, jury trials were abolished by the government of India in 1960 ( this was followed by Pakistan soon afterwards ) on the grounds they would be susceptible to media and public influence.

It was believed to be around 500, 000 in 2001 but since then many Afghan expats began returning from Pakistan and Iran where they had taken refuge from the wars.

Like the Christian libraries, they mostly contained books which were made of paper, and took a codex or modern form instead of scrolls ; they could be found in mosques, private homes, and universities, from Timbuktu to Afghanistan and modern day Pakistan.

In the Church of Pakistan ( a member of the Anglican Communion ) on Palm Sunday, the faithful carry palm branches into the church, as they sing Psalm 24.

That Shaykh Ali bin Abdullah spent extravagantly, owned a villa in Switzerland, and hunted in Pakistan fueled discontent, especially among those who were excluded from the regime's largesse ( non-Al Thani Qataris ) and those who were not excluded but thought they deserved more ( other branches of the Al Thani ).

* Pakistan says they have seen evidence against Osama bin Laden from the British House of Commons strong enough to support an indictment.

" In places using sharia law such as Iran and Pakistan, while having a fixed legal system, with prosecuters, appeals courts and a supreme court, and a definite civil law style penal code, they are still heavily based on the informality and simplicity of a " pure " sharia court, and trials often still take a matter of hours or sometimes days.

Others, such as Pakistan and Iran have constitutions, but they reflect the principles of sharia, and have sharia legal systems with corresponding civil laws ( qanun ).

The ISI used the Taliban to establish a regime in Afghanistan which would be favorable to Pakistan, as they were trying to gain strategic depth.

The Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, Abdul Salem Zaeef, responded to the ultimatum by demanding " convincing evidence " that Bin Laden was involved in the attacks, stating " our position is that if America has evidence and proof, they should produce it.

In former British Empire colonies like India, Pakistan they are known as Gymkhana.

The leaves are also used in Pakistan to give baths to children suffering from skin diseases. The leaves are used in this manner that first they are washed thoroughly.

Distinct characteristics of urban planning from remains of the cities of Harappa, Lothal, and Mohenjo-daro in the Indus Valley Civilization ( in modern-day northwestern India and Pakistan ) lead archeologists to conclude that they are the earliest examples of deliberately planned and managed cities.

Both India and Pakistan have also adopted this strategy, which they term Minimum Credible Deterrence.

This atrocious war crime was heavily criticised by the whole world and caused Macedonia to lose much of its foreign support especially from the west, the EU and Pakistan governments strongly insisted that the people responsible for this war crime be brought to justice but the four men allegedly responsible for this were cleared of all charges and received a hero ’ s sheared after they left court.

The spin from rifling decreases the effective penetration of these rounds ( rifling diverts some of the linear kinetic energy to rotational kinetic energy, thus decreasing the round's velocity and impact energy ) and so they are generally fired from smoothbore guns ; a practice that has been taken up by Israel — a major supplier of " arrow " rounds — China, France, Pakistan, Germany, Russia, and the United States in their tanks.

* 1988 – President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U. S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.

The countries with coastlines on the Arabian Sea are Somalia, Djibouti, Yemen, Oman, Iran, Pakistan, India and the Maldives.

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.

Other areas sometimes included are Afghanistan, Mongolia, eastern Iran and northern and western Pakistan, and sometimes Xinjiang and Tibet in western China, Jammu and Kashmir in northern India, and southern Siberia in eastern Russia.

Federick Barth in his review of this system of social stratification in Pakistan suggests that these are castes.

Some high-profile examples are the Pakistan / India conflict or the battles in the Sudan.

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

They are mainly spoken in southern India and parts of eastern and central India as well as in northeastern Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Iran, and overseas in other countries such as Malaysia and Singapore.

* 2009 – 43 people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura.

Since the collapse of the Taliban government in 2001, new trade relations are emerging with the United States, Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, the EU, Japan, Uzbekistan, India and other countries.

Emeralds are also found in other countries, such as Afghanistan, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Kazakhstan, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Russia, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, United States, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

** Cricket Associations and Departments ( corporate teams ) versus each other, or other first-class opponents, provided the associations or departments are affiliated to the Pakistan Cricket Board, and the match is organized by the Pakistan Cricket Board

The delegates to the General Synod of the ARP Church are the elder representatives elected from each church's Session and all ministers from all presbyteries that comprise the Church ( excluding ministers and elders from the independent ARP Synods of Mexico and Pakistan ).

" The document further states that the parents of those Pakistani nationals " know nothing regarding their child's military involvement with the Taliban until their bodies are brought back to Pakistan.

Its advantages are most pronounced when the receiving country applies unprofitable exchange rate regulations ( as has been the case for many typical receiving countries such as Pakistan or Egypt ) or when the banking system in the receiving country is less complex ( e. g. due to differences in legal environment in places such as Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia ).

The current Board members are: Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, South Korea, Mongolia, Netherlands, Niger, Pakistan, Peru, Portugal, Russian Federation, Singapore, South Africa, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, and Venezuela ( IAEA Board of Governors 2010 – 2011 ).

Taliban are still very much alive and fighting a vigorous insurgency from bases in the frontier regions of Pakistan with suicide bombings and armed attacks being launched against NATO, Afghan government targets and civilians.

Islamist or fundamentalist attacks are also on the increase in Afghanistan and in Pakistan, where hundreds have been killed in 2006 and 2007, although in both countries not all of the attacks have been on civilians.

" Similar sexual sociologies are reported for other Muslim societies from North Africa to Pakistan and the Far East.

Four South Asian nations — India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka — are in the top ten list of Tokyo's aid recipients worldwide.

More FTA's are planned with Iraq, the Palestinian Authority, the GCC, Lebanon, and Pakistan.