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Pakistan (Uru: پاکستان listen (help·info)), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and converging with Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometer (650 mile) coastline along the Arabian Sea in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast.

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  • With India's help Bangladesh broke away from this country
  • In 1993 General Beg of this countrv said yes, we have nukes & we'll use them on India if we have to
  • November 5, 1996: This country gives Benazir Bhutto the boot for a second time
  • India got its independence August 15, 1947, the day after this neighbor got its own
  • After a 1998 nuclear test, this country's prime minister said, "We have evened the score with India"
  • The disputed ownership of the Kashmir region is a sore spot between India & this smaller neighbor
  • The tarbela dam is located on the Indus River not far from Islamabad in this country
  • This nation's name is an acronym partly standing for Punjab, Afghan, Kashmir, Sind & "Tan" from Baluchistan
  • Karachi is this country's chief port
  • This country's 4 provinces are Baluchistan, the Northwest Frontier, Sindh, & Punjab
  • Its capital has moved about 750 miles inland from Karachi to Rawalpindi to Islamabad
  • India & this country have been disputing ownership of Kashmir since 1947
  • In 2010 an official in this Afghanistan neighbor was told if he's so afraid of the Taliban, he should wear a woman's dupatta
  • This nation is composed of 4 provinces: Sind, Baluchistan, the NW Frontier province & Punjab
  • You could call Benazir Bhutto, born in this country's largest city, the Karachi Kid
  • The flag of this nation of around 140 million is seen here
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  • Asif Ali Zardari, husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, became this country's president in September 2008
  • Of this country's first nuclear tests, prime minister Sharif said, "Today we have evened the score with India"
  • Punjab & Baluchistan
  • Rawalpindi was selected as this country's interim capital while Islamabad was under construction
  • India became independent 1 day after this country was created
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  • The Daily Punjab, The Balochistan Post
  • As the new leader of India, Lal Bahadur Shastri led it into a war with this neighbor in 1965
  • A possible nuclear war was averted (for the moment) in June 2002 talks between India & this country
  • In 1947 East Bengal became East this; later it became Bangladesh
  • Beginning in 1947 about 6 million Muslims fled from India to this country carved from it
  • Iran & India
  • Camels are widely used on farms in the Punjab region of India & this country
  • After India was partitioned in 1947, what would later become Bangladesh was the "East" part of this country
  • Lawyers took to the streets after the suspension Iftikhar Chaudhry, chief justice of this country
  • In the 1st century Kanishka ruled a chunk of central Asia from what's now Peshawar in this country
  • Asif Ali Zardari, from Pervez Musharraf
  • Country whose oldest university is in Lahore
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  • India shares its longest border with this nation to the west
  • Nawaz Sharif was the prime minister of this nation until deposed by its current military leader
  • Punjab & Sindh are 2 of its 4 provinces
  • Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto
  • Punjabi is spoken by about half of all households in this country
  • The baggy shalwar is always in fashion in this country on India's northwest border
  • A predecessor of Pervez Musharraf, Mohammad Ayub Khan was president of this country from 1958 to 1969
  • (The Queen reads once more.) To help generate international support, in 2005 I brought relief supplies to Muzaffarabad after a devastating earthquake in this country
  • About 80% of the world's soccer balls are made in this country, most of them in Sialkot, north of Lahore
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  • President Pervez Musharraf
  • Benazir Bhutto
  • Feel welcome but be cautious in this country that has Iran on its western border & India on its eastern one
  • Lahore
  • (I'm Nicholas Kristof.) In 2008 I wrote that Obama's most difficult international test could be this Asian "country with 170 million people and up to 60 nuclear weapons (which) may be collapsing"
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  • In 2000 Nawaz Sharif was forced out of this country where he'd been prime minister; in 2007 he came back
  • The white bar of this country's flag represents the minority & the green is for the Muslim majority
  • Lawyer Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  • In July 1977 the military took over this nation & Gen. Zia ul-Haq became chief martial law administrator

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