I have bee told that the name Pakistan is derived from: Pashtu, Arab, kurdis and ?? Is that right? Who knows about this?
2006-10-10 11:38:12 · 2 answers · asked by lilys_butterflies 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
The name "Pakistan" (IPA: [paːkɪst̪aːn]) means "Land of the Pure" in Urdu and Persian. It was coined in 1933 by Choudhary Rahmat Ali, who published it in the pamphlet Now or Never[3] as an acronym of the names of the "Muslim homelands" of western India — P for Punjab, A for Afghania (the Afghan (Pashtun) areas in the Northwest Frontier Province), K for Kashmir, S for Sindh and tan for Balochistan. The i was later added to the name since in Urdu, the national language of Pakistan, "istan" refers to "land of" while "pak" means pure. Officially, the nation was founded as the Dominion of Pakistan in 1947, and was renamed as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in 1957.
2006-10-10 11:40:33 · answer #1 · answered by Bill P 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bill P has given the right and prompt answer.
2006-10-13 14:26:51 · answer #2 · answered by Muhammad Faraz Quadri 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋