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Pakistan is unique among Muslim countries in that it is the only country to have been created in the name of Islam, As a result of the Pakistan movement led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and the subcontinent's struggle for independence, Pakistan was created in 1947 as an independent homeland for Indian Muslims.

word pakistan 

The name pakistan literally means "land of the pure" in urdu and persian. It alludes to the word pak meaning pure in persian and pashto The suffix  (-stan) is a Persian word meaning the place of, and 

The name of the country was coined in 1933 as Pakstan by choudhery rehmat ali a pakistan movement activist

Location/population  Pakistan is the fifth-most populous country with a population exceeding 209,970,000 peoples In terms of area, Pakistan is the 33rd largest country spanning 881,913 square kilometres (340,509 square miles). Pakistan has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile) coastline along the Arabian sea and gulf of oman in the south and is bordered by india to the east, Afghaistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China in the far northeast, respectively. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor in the north-west, and also shares a Maritime border with Oman,

Administrative divisions

Administrative Division	Capital	Population
Balochistan	Quetta	12,344,408
Punjab	Lahore	110,012,442
Sindh	Karachi	47,886,051
KPK	Peshawar	30,523,371
Gilgit-biltistan	Gilgit	1,800,000
FATA		5,001,676
Azad kashmir	Muzaffarabad	4,567,982
Islamabad capital Territory	Islamabad	2,851,868

Pakistan's Army Pakistan has the  sixth-largest standing armed forces in the world and is also a nuclear power as well as a declared nuclear-weapons state, being the second in South Asia and the only nation in the Muslim world to have that status. 

 Pakistani Economy

Pakistan has a semi-industrialised Economy with a well-integrated Agriculture sector, and a growing services sector.^[The Pakistani economy is the 24th-largest in the world in terms of purchasing power and the 41st-largest in terms of nominal GDP (World Bank). It is ranked among the emerging and growth-leading economies of the world, and is backed by one of the world's largest and fastest-growing middle classes,

Sports

Hockey is the National sport of Pakistan; it has won three gold medals in theOlympic Games held in 1960. 1968, and 1984, Pakistan has also won the hockey world cup a record four times, held in 1971, 1978, 1982, and 1994

Cricket however, is the most popular game across the country, The cricket team (known as Shaheen) won the Cricket world cup held in 1992, it was runner-up once, in 1999, Pakistan was runner-up in the inaugural World T20 (2007) in South Africa and won the World T20 in England in 2009,
Pakistan also won the 2017 champion trophy by beaten India in final,

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Ali Haider
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