The Country of Pakistan

The geography for Pakistan is located in the western part of the Indian Subcontinent. It is surrounded by some familiar names tied with modern day events such as Afghanistan and India. The name Pakistan comes from two different Urdu words, Pak meaning pure, and Stan meaning country. Pakistan is nearly twice the size of California. The capital for Pakistan is Islamabad. When Pervez Musharraf created a lasting military in 1999, it was later declared in 2001 that they would have a democratic government.

Pakistan for a long time was made up of the eastern and western sections, as a successor to British India. Now it is made up of only the western sector. Pakistan and India often fought over what is called Kashmir, and these quarrels lead to war scattered across the years from 1949 until 1999. The dispute still remains unsolved today. In prehistoric years however, many different areas had rule over Pakistan, such as Aryans, Persians, Greeks, Arabs, Turks, and others-controlled this region for over the next several thousand years. Islamic religion came about back in these days around 711 way before their land became part of the Mogul Empire. Finally by 1857 the British were dominant to most surrounding area including Pakistan. Through this Muslim satisfaction was lowered and lead to the Nationalist Muslim League in 1906 by the famous Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Even though they didn't necessarily like Britain, they still backed up Britain in the Second World War so that they Ghandi would be backed up in the Muslim autonomy.