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Packastan is not really a country as we know it. The name of the country Pakistan is actually an acronym.
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Prior to 1947, the country now known as Pakistan was a British colony. In 1947 the United Kingdom granted independence to the region under a new name, Pakistan. The name had been developed by a group of students at Cambridge University who issued a pamphlet in 1933 called Now or Never. They came up with the term "Pakistan" as "composed of letters taken from the names of our homelands: that is, Punjab, Afghania [North-West Frontier Province], Kashmir, Iran, Sindh, Tukharistan, Afghanistan, and Balochistan. It means the land of the Paks, the spiritually pure and clean."
Although the suffix "stan" means country in Hindi and Persian, the students were able to fit the names of homelands to create an appropriate country name.
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The country is essentially ungovernable due to the multitude of Pashtun tribesmen, and other tribes and groups, war lords, religious nuts e.g. the Talaban, Al Qaida etc. Add to that their hatred of India, and add to that fact. They Have The Bomb.
IMHO Pakistan is a much bigger threat than Iran.
I used to occasionally fly into Karachi. The gulf between the haves and the have nots is disturbing to say the least.
I would ask Srinath, to give me his take on the root cause for such animosity between India and Pakistan? Is it territorial in nature?
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