Islamic Republic of Pakistan | |
|---|---|
| Motto: Īmān, Ittihād, Nazam ایمان، اتحاد، نظم (Urdu) "Faith, Unity, Discipline" [2] | |
| Anthem: Qaumī Tarānah قَومی ترانہ | |
.svg) Location of Pakistan (dark green); claimed but uncontrolled region (light green) | |
| Capital | Islamabad 33°41′30″N 73°03′00″E / 33.69167°N 73.05000°E |
| Largest city | Karachi 24°51′36″N 67°00′36″E / 24.86000°N 67.01000°E |
| Official languages | |
| Recognised regional languages | |
| National languages | Urdu[11][12] |
| Auxiliary languages | Arabic[13] |
| Ethnic groups | |
| Religion | |
| Demonym(s) | Pakistani |
| Membership | UN, WTO, ECO, SAARC, G24, SCO, ARF, Commonwealth of Nations |
| Government | Federal parliamentary constitutional republic |
| Arif Alvi | |
| Imran Khan | |
| Sadiq Sanjrani | |
| Asad Qaiser | |
| Asif Saeed Khan Khosa | |
| Legislature | Parliament |
| Senate | |
| National Assembly | |
| Independence from the United Kingdom | |
• Dominion | 14 August 1947 |
| 23 March 1956 | |
| 14 August 1973 | |
| Area | |
• Total | 881,913 km2 (340,509 sq mi)[a][18] (33rd) |
• Water (%) | 2.86 |
| Population | |
• 2017 census | 212,742,631[19] (5th) |
• Density | 244.4/km2 (633.0/sq mi) (56th) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2017 estimate |
• Total | $1.060 trillion[20] (25th) |
• Per capita | $5,374[20] (137th) |
| GDP (nominal) | 2017 estimate |
• Total | $304.4 billion[21] (42nd) |
• Per capita | $1,629[22] (145th) |
| Gini (2013) | 30.7[23] medium inequality |
| HDI (2017) |  0.562[24]medium (150th) |
| Currency | Pakistani rupee (₨) (PKR) |
| Time zone | UTC+5b (PST) |
| Drives on | left[25] |
| Calling code | +92 |
| ISO 3166 code | PK |
| Internet TLD | .pk |
Website www | |
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Pakistan[b] (Urdu: پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (Urdu: اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia. It is the world’s sixth-most populous country with a population exceeding 212,742,631 people.[19] In area, it 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, 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.
The territory that now constitutes Pakistan was the site of several ancient cultures and intertwined with the history of the broader Indian subcontinent. The ancient history involves the Neolithic site of Mehrgarh and the Bronze Age Indus Valley Civilisation, and was later home to kingdoms ruled by people of different faiths and cultures, including Persians, Hindus, Indo-Greeks, Muslims, Turco-Mongols, Afghans and Sikhs. The area has been ruled by numerous empires and dynasties, including Achaemenid Empire, Alexander III of Macedon, Seleucid Empire, Maurya Empire, Gupta Empire,[26] Umayyad Caliphate, Delhi Sultanate, Mongol Empire, Mughal Empire, Durrani Empire, Sikh Empire and, most recently, British Empire.[27][28] Pakistan is the only country to have been created in the name of Islam.[27][28] It is an ethnically and linguistically diverse country, with a similarly diverse geography and wildlife.
A regional[29][30][31] and middle power,[32][33][34] 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, the second in South Asia and the only nation in the Muslim world to have that status. Pakistan has a semi-industrialised economy with a well-integrated agriculture sector and a growing services sector.[35][36] It is ranked among the emerging and growth-leading economies of the world,[37][38] and is backed by one of the world's largest and fastest-growing middle class.[39][40] Pakistan's political history since independence has been characterized by periods of military rule, political instability and conflicts with India. The country continues to face challenging problems, including overpopulation, terrorism, poverty, illiteracy, and corruption.[41][42][43][44]
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Religion: Approximately 1.6 percent of the population is Hindu, 1.6 percent is Christian, and 0.3 percent belongs to other religions, such as Bahaism and Sikhism.
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Pakistan is unique among Muslim countries in its relationship with Islam: it is the only country to have been established in the name of Islam
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As British rule there drew to an end, many Muslims demanded, in the name of Islam, the creation of a separate Pakistan state.
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In the framework of their regional security complex theory (RSCT), Barry Buzan and Ole Waever differentiate between superpowers and great powers which act and influence the global level (or system level) and regional powers whose influence may be large in their regions but have less effect at the global level. This category of regional powers includes Brazil, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Turkey.
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- ^ Paul, T. V. (2012). International Relations Theory and Regional Transformation. Cambridge University Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-107-02021-4. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
The regional powers such as Israel or Pakistan are not simple bystanders of great power politics in their regions; they attempt to asymmetrically influence the major power system often in their own distinct ways.
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Countries like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have enough influence to not be considered small, but not enough to be major powers. Within the limits of their regions, they play a significant political role. Thus instinctively, they would qualify as middle powers. While it is not the objective here to question the characteristics of Jordan's definition of middle powers, we argue that Pakistan is in fact a middle power despite its being nuclear-armed. When looking at the numbers, for instance, it appears that Saudi Arabia and Pakistan can be classified as middle powers (see in this regard Ping, 2007).
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