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Territory in southern Asia, ruled since 1956 by the Islāmī Jumhūriyah Pākistān[
Pakistan (Urdu: پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (Urdu: اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia. It is the sixth-most populous country with a population exceeding 212,742,631 people. In area, it is the 33rd-largest country, spanning 881,913 square kilometers. Pakistan has a 1,046-kilometer coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest and China in the far northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor in the northwest, and also shares a maritime border with Oman.
Geographical type: Territory
Latitude: 30° N — Longitude: 70° E
Area: 881,913 km²
ISO 3166-2 code: PK
Blogs
Indian & Pakistani Friends of Ron Paul
Measures of Freedom
Economic Freedom Summary Index, Economic Freedom of the World, 16 Oct 2024
2022 overall score: 5.62, rank: 134
2022 overall score: 5.62, rank: 134
Human Freedom Index [PDF], The Human Freedom Index 2023: A Global Measurement of Personal, Civil, and Economic Freedom
2021: 5.49, Rank: 132, Personal freedom: 5.13, Economic freedom: 5.98
2021: 5.49, Rank: 132, Personal freedom: 5.13, Economic freedom: 5.98
Pakistan | Freedom House, Freedom in the World 2024
2016: Status: Partly Free, Aggregate Score: 41, Political Rights: 4, Civil Liberties: 5
2016: Status: Partly Free, Aggregate Score: 41, Political Rights: 4, Civil Liberties: 5
Pakistan was relatively stable in 2015. Terrorist violence decreased by one-third from 2014 levels, though it caused 3,682 fatalities. The decrease was consistent with the widely held impression that the terrorist threat in Pakistan has passed its peak. The government began implementing a 20-point National Action Plan (NAP) during the year, announced by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in December 2014.
Articles
Treating People Like Garbage, by Sheldon Richman, The Goal Is Freedom, 4 Oct 2013
Prompted by the "closing" of the U.S. government during Oct 2013, examines two examples of how the state behaves towards people: an Iraq war veteran and his family, and the genocide of Bengalis in March 1971, with the support of Nixon and Kissinger
Prompted by the "closing" of the U.S. government during Oct 2013, examines two examples of how the state behaves towards people: an Iraq war veteran and his family, and the genocide of Bengalis in March 1971, with the support of Nixon and Kissinger
[I]n 1947, the subcontinent was partitioned into India and Pakistan. But Muslim Pakistan itself was divided into east and west with India in between. As [Gary J.] Bass explains in a New York Times op-ed,
This strange arrangement held until 1970, when Bengali nationalists in East Pakistan triumphed in nationwide elections. The ruling military government, based in West Pakistan, feared losing its grip. So on March 25, 1971, the Pakistani Army launched a devastating crackdown on the rebellious Bengalis in the east.... The onslaught helped spark a war between Pakistan and India ...
Cartoons and Comic Strips
Declaration of Thingamajig, by Mark Fiore, 22 Jun 2011
On thewars ... hostilities ... thingamajigs of the U.S. empire
On the
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