Pakistan, even being an ethnically diverse country, is regarded as a nation state due to its ideology on basis of which it got independence from British India as a separate nation rather than as a unified India.

During this time, Musharraf maintained his friendship and contact with Mirza through letters and telephones even in difficult times when Mirza, after joining the Navy Special Service Group, was stationed in East-Pakistan as a military advisor to East Pakistan Army.

Since the independence, the West-Pakistan was a parliamentary republic ( even as of today, the parliamentary system is the official form of government of Pakistan ) with Prime minister as the head of the government and President as head of state, although Presidential office is ceremonial office.

* P. l. persica, known as the Asiatic Lion or South Asian, Persian, or Indian lion, once was widespread from Turkey, across Southwest Asia, to Pakistan, India, and even to Bangladesh.

The ancient Indus systems of sewerage and drainage that were developed and used in cities throughout the civilization were far more advanced than any found in contemporary urban sites in the Middle East and even more efficient than those in some areas of modern Pakistan and India today.

Pakistan, under Zia ul-Haq, continued to support the mujahideen even though it was a contravention of the Geneva Accords.

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.

During the Soviet occupation and the development of country-wide resistance, local areas came increasingly under the control of mujaheddin groups that were largely independent of any higher authority ; local commanders, in some instances, asserted a measure of independence also from the mujaheddin leadership in Pakistan, establishing their own systems of local government, collecting revenues, running educational and other facilities, and even engaging in local negotiations.

Afghanistan and Pashtun nationalists did not exploit Pakistan's vulnerability during the nation's 1965 and 1971 wars with India, and even backed Pakistan against a largely Hindu India.

A 2010 study by the Congressional Research Service titled ' Pakistan ’ s Nuclear Weapons: Proliferation and Security Issues ' noted that even though Pakistan had taken several steps to enhance nuclear security in recent years, " instability in Pakistan has called the extent and durability of these reforms into question.

According to a summer 2001 report in The Friday Times, even the Taliban leaders challenged the very existence of the Durand Line when former Afghan Interior Minister Abdur Razzaq and a delegate of about 95 Taliban visited Pakistan.

Others dropped it even sooner, e. g. in 1953, while still a dominion of the Commonwealth ( till 1956 ), Pakistan dropped the title in recognition of the contradiction between its overwhelmingly Muslim population and having a monarch as the defender of the Christian faith.

The sand cat lives in arid areas that are too hot and dry even for the African Wildcat: the Sahara, the Arabian Desert, and the deserts of Iran and Pakistan.

Others ask how one's choice of burial place is an indication of one's Patriotism since a better indicator is one's actions while living and even though Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan spent half of his 98 year life in jail most of it in Pakistani jails doing hard labor he continued to reside in Pakistan.

But the PPP did not even dare to set up a candidate in East Pakistan.

The National Assembly, however, could not even meet on 26 March due to widespread disturbances in East Pakistan where the army moved in on 26 March to control the situation.

In India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran it is even considered taboo to ask people to pay their own bills.

This subspecies is wholly migratory, wintering from Pakistan and India eastwards through South-East Asia and southern China to Korea and Japan ; some even reach Africa.

* Dhōlki is used both in Sri Lanks and India, and even Pakistan.

It is a summer migrant, wintering in Africa and Pakistan and sometimes even to India and Iraq.

This species is a very rare vagrant to Europe, and has vagrant status even as far east as Pakistan.

This resulted in considerable problems for the Pakistani government, particularly its customs bureau who realized that many of the items being resold on the black market in Pakistan were the very same items being allowed duty free exemption from Pakistani ports ( mainly Karachi ) on their way to Afghanistan.

Pakistan allowed the free sale and consumption of alcohol for three decades from 1947, but restrictions were introduced by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto just weeks before he was removed as prime minister in 1977.

Pakistan's Government has placed him on the " Exit Control List ( ECL )" in which he is not allowed to travel out of Pakistan and since his release, Mehmood has been out of the public eye and lives a very quiet life in Islamabad, Pakistan.

The closures have allowed the service to focus its attention on Pakistan and Afghanistan, which are its principal stations.

Having been allowed to return to the United Kingdom in 1984, she became a leader in exile of Pakistan People's Party ( PPP ).

Those elements that allowed Borlaug's projects to succeed in India and Pakistan, such as well-organized economies and transportation and irrigation systems, are severely lacking throughout Africa, posing additional obstacles to increasing yields.

The U-2 " spy-in-the-sky " was allowed to use the Pakistan Air Force portion of Peshawar Airport to gain vital photo intelligence in an era before satellite observation.

These long-distance migrations were stopped in the early 1960s when the border with Afghanistan and Pakistan were closed, but many Kuchis are still allowed to cross as border officials recognize the Kuchi migrations which occur seasonally and allow them to pass even in times of political turmoil.

Early civilizations in Mesopotamia ( present day Iraq ), Egypt, China and Pakistan / NW India allowed rulers and the wealthy class citizens to keep collections of wild animals.

Polygamy was then allowed in Pakistan.

According to J. Cirincione of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Khushab's Plutonium production capacity has allowed Pakistan to develop lighter nuclear warheads that would be easier to deliver to any place in the range of the ballistic missiles.

He scored a classic century against South Africa in Durban, which allowed Pakistan to win a Test match for the first time in South Africa.

The amendments to the Banks Nationalization Act brought the end of the Pakistan Banking Council ( an institution established to look after the affairs of NCBs ) and allowed the jobs of the council to be appointed to the Chief Executives, Boards of the Nationalized Commercial Banks ( NCBs ) and Development Finance Institutions ( DFIs ).

Role of Mr Ajmal Mian was controversial here, as he effectively allowed a coup to occur within the supreme court of Pakistan against a sitting chief justice.

In January 2012, Civil Aviation Authority ( CAA ) allowed Pearl Airlines to start operation in Pakistan.

It became a member of the IATA Ground Handling Council which allowed the company to expand its facilities to cargo, chartered and private airlines that operated to and from Pakistan.

The separation of India from Burma in the year 1937, the partition of India in 1947 and the administrative extension over the Indian part of the area negatively impacted the free mobility of the inhabitants, despite the existing rules that allowed free cross-over across India-Burma and India-East Pakistan ( now India-Bangladesh ) international border.

* Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, leader of the Pakhtoon people, was allowed to return to Pakistan after an exile of eight years, after he agreed to drop calls for an independent " Pakhtoonistan ".

Pakistan would have made significant territorial gains in Indian-Administered Kashmir which might have allowed her to bargain from a position of strength in the peace talks, sponsored by the Soviet Union at Tashkent.

In 2005, India allowed Yasin Malik to visit Pakistan for the first time.

A1 Team Pakistan allowed Khan to choose the racing team who would manage the car but despite this he was unable to change the fortunes of the struggling team.

Ladies are not allowed inside the tomb, but the late Benazir Bhutto, then prime minister of Pakistan, managed to enter inside when she visited the shrine.