Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state, but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation.

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

* Independence Day, celebrates the day on which Pakistan was made an independent country based on border lines created by the British during the end of their rule of India in 1947.

He was instrumental in the creation of Pakistan.

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

In 1947, British rule in the South Asia was replaced by the sovereign, independent nations of India, Pakistan and later Bangladesh, resulting in the migration of millions people and significant loss of life and property.

A Pakistan Air Force T-33 trainer was hijacked on August 20, 1971 before Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 in Karachi when a Bengali instructor pilot, Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman, knocked out the young Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas with the intention of defecting to India with the plane and national secrets.

In 2006 it was held in three cities: Caracas ( Venezuela ), Bamako ( Mali ), and Karachi ( Pakistan ).

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.

Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, was assassinated by Saad Akbar, a lone assassin, in 1951.

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.

Its main cappital was Ghazni, Afghanistan, and Lahore in Pakistan served as the second capital.

Brill and Farishta have recorded that the complete conversion of Afghanistan, Pakistan to Islam was during the rule of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni.

He was promoted to full colonel in 1934 He attended and was then recommended to become an instructor at the Indian Army Staff College ( now the Pakistan Army Staff College ) in Quetta, British India.

It was also in 1990 that he made his belated Test debut for West Indies against Pakistan, scoring 44 and 5.

Among the early Old World cities, Mohenjo-daro of the Indus Valley Civilization in present-day Pakistan, existing from about 2600 BC, was one of the largest, with a population of 50, 000 or more.

An Indian POW, Lance Naik Hatam Ali ( later a citizen of Pakistan ), testified that in New Guinea: " the Japanese started selecting prisoners and every day one prisoner was taken out and killed and eaten by the soldiers.

The Pakistan Cave Research & Caving Federation was founded in Pakistan in 1997.

The sixth census of Pakistan was planned for October 2008.

The 1987 tournament, named the Reliance World Cup after their Indian sponsors, was held in India and Pakistan, the first time that the competition was held outside England.

It is geographically the largest of the four provinces at 347, 190 km² or ( 134, 051 square miles ) of Pakistani territory ; and composes 48 % of the total land area of Pakistan.

Pakistan came into being with two non-contiguous enclaves, East Pakistan ( today Bangladesh ) and West Pakistan, separated geographically by India.

As a result of the British Empire, significant British influence can be observed in the language, culture and institutions of a geographically wide assortment of countries, including Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa and the United States.

The largest geographically contiguous group of Hindko speakers is concentrated in the districts of Abbottabad, Haripur, Mansehra, Attock of Pakistan, while there are a substantial number of speakers of Hindko in cities like Peshawar, Nowshera, Swabi and Kohat of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province of Pakistan and parts of both Kashmirs.

The only languages which are predominantly found in Europe, North Asia and South Asia and are not part of the language families above are the Basque language spoken in Northern Spain and Southwestern France, the three living language families of the Caucasus mountains ( Northwest Caucasian, Northeast Caucasian and South Caucasian, with the first two sometimes proposed as members of a single North Caucasian language family ), the Paleosiberian languages ( the Yukaghir languages of Central Siberia ( viewed by some linguists as a divergent branch of the Uralic languages ), and the Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages of Eastern Siberia, a grouping which sometimes includes the geographically adjacent Nivkh language, although it is sometimes treated as a language isolate, and Yenesian ), and a few South Asian linguistic isolates, such as Burushaski, spoken mostly in isolated pockets of Northern Pakistan, and the two indigenous language families of the Andamanese people ( Great Andamanese and Ongan ), and perhaps Nihali ( spoken in West Central India ).

Kachhi is a dialect of Sindhi, spoken in neighboring Sindh, Pakistan and parts of India, but has borrowed some vocabulary from Gujarati, because the Kutch District is geographically between Sindh and Gujarat.

Three princely states geographically inalienable to Pakistan joined the Dominion.

Azad Kashmir is considered politically, constitutionally and geographically part of a separate state, Azad Kashmir, which is in turn an autonomous entity under the government of Pakistan.

These groups state that they are geographically, ethnically, linguistically and culturally distinct from Pakistan and Kashmir, and that the region is incorrectly associated with the dilemma facing the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir.

Some of its areas, Harij and Sami, bordering Kutch are quite sensitive as there is no settled population between there and the border of Pakistan even though geographically the border is quite some distance away.

Colonel MOG Osmani was appointed the Commander in Chief of Liberation Forces and whole East Pakistan was divided into eleven sectors headed by eleven sector commanders.

The British Indian Empire, which included present-day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, was divided into two types of territories: the Provinces of British India, which were governed directly by British officials responsible to the Governor-General of India ; and princely states, under the rule of local hereditary rulers who recognised British suzerainty in return for local autonomy, in most cases as established by treaty.

The region is divided among three countries in a territorial dispute: Pakistan controls the northwest portion ( Northern Areas and Azad Kashmir ), India controls the central and southern portion ( Jammu and Kashmir ) and Ladakh, and China controls the northeastern portion ( Aksai Chin and the Trans-Karakoram Tract ).

A coin of Menander I, who ruled the eastern dominions of the divided Greek empire of Bactria and the modern Pakistani provinces of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab ( Pakistan ) | Punjab and Sindh.

Pakistan is divided into three major geographic areas: the northern highlands ; the Indus River plain, with two major subdivisions corresponding roughly to the provinces of Punjab and Sindh ; and the Balochistan Plateau.

After independence, the military was supposed to have been divided between India and Pakistan with a ratio of 64 % going to India and 36 % for Pakistan ; however, it is estimated that Pakistan inherited only about 15 % of the equipment.

The military forces were divided to the ratio of 64 % for India and 36 % for Pakistan.

In political terms, therefore, Pakistan as a nation stood divided as a result.

By 2600 BC, Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, major cities of the Indus Valley Civilization ( present day Pakistan ), were built with blocks divided by a grid of straight streets, running north-south and east-west.

After the British India was partitioned on a religious basis in 1947, the Punjab province was divided between India and newly created Pakistan.

The Education System of Pakistan is divided into five levels

It was a part of India before Pakistan came into being after it divided from India.

When India attained independence on 15 August 1947, the British province of Bengal was divided into two, with West Bengal becoming part of India and East Bengal part of Pakistan.

In Pakistan, the Wazir tribe speaks Waziri language are settled in Waziristan region which is now divided into North Waziristan and South Waziristan.

The province of Bengal was divided into the two separate entities of West Bengal belonging to India, and East Bengal belonging to Pakistan.

In political terms, therefore, Pakistan as a nation stood divided as a result of the very first general elections in twenty-three years of its existence.

The rest of the British Indian Army was divided between the newly created nations of Republic of India and Republic of Pakistan.

The partition of India following its independence divided the nation's assets and a number of studios went to the newly formed Pakistan.

A largely Hindu India and a Muslim Pakistan are created by partitions of the subcontinent, with Punjab and Bengal divided along religious-demographic boundaries between the two.

The historical Punjab region, now divided between Pakistan and India, is defined physiographically by the Indus River and these five tributaries.

After partition the British Indian Army was divided between the new Indian Army and the Pakistan Army.