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Pakistan is a country in South Asia. Along the Arabian Sea, surrounded by Afghanistan to the west and north-west, south-west of Iran, India to the east and northeast of China. E 'strategically located astride the ancient trade routes of the Khyber and Bolan passes between Asia and Europe
Traces the history of Pakistan back to the beginnings of human life in South Asia. Pakistan is home to the Indus civilization, which is among the oldest in the world.
Before 1900 the area of Pakistan, where Muslims ruled Central Asia and South America for over 300 years. Today Pakistan is composed of people of different races, like the Muslim Arabs after the delivery of books, the Persians of Bukhara and Samarkand in Central Asia, the Turks and Sindhus national who turned to Islam.
The official name of Pakistan was used after the partition of (British) India 2 United Nations, India and Pakistan in 1947. However, the word that Pakistan first used by Ch Rehmat Ali in 1933 in his statement, Now or never - requires its separation from the Empire. Then under British control in India was divided in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (with two sections West and East) and India. A third war between these countries in 1971 resulted in East Pakistan seceded and became the separate nation Bangladesh. A dispute of Jammu and Kashmir has started between India and Pakistan.
