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To: BenLurkin
PAKISTAN means
pak = pure
stan = land

Pakistan, land of the pure.

Hahahaha, makes me laugh.

4 posted on 02/20/2016 2:39:05 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: cloudmountain

This is the origin of “Pakistan”....

It was coined in 1933 as ‘Pakstan’ by Choudhry Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan Movement activist, who published it in his pamphlet Now or Never,[26] using it as an acronym (”thirty million Muslim brethren who live in PAKSTAN”) referring to the names of the five northern regions of the British Raj: Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Baluchistan”.[27][28][29] The letter i was incorporated to ease pronunciation and form the linguistically correct and meaningful name.[30]


6 posted on 02/20/2016 2:41:59 PM PST by dfwgator
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