The official name of Pakistan is The Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the capital city is Islamabad. Pakistan achieved its independence from the United Kingdom on August 14‚ 1947. Pakistan is a located in the southwest region of Asia measuring a little less than twice the size of California and is comprised of 803‚940 sq. km. Pakistan is sandwiched mainly between India to the east and Afghanistan to the west with China sharing a small section of the north boarder and Iran sharing the southwest
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Pakistan Foreign Policy The quest for security has been at the heart of Pakistan’s foreign policy since independence. Pakistan’s security environment derives its origins from the circumstances in which Pakistan was created. The violence accompanying the portion leading to the emergence of the two independent states of Pakistan and India generated hostility‚ which continues to afflict relations between the two countries mainly because of the unresolved issue of Jammu and Kashmir. The issue is the
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Disputes between Pakistan and Afghanistan: Historical‚ political and Strategic Perspective Introduction: Pakistan came in to being on Islamic ideology revolving around the concept of Muslim Ummah and destined to be a symbol of universal Islamic solidarity across the globe. According to the first Prime Minister of Pakistan‚ Liaqat Ali Khan‚ ‘A cardinal feature of this ideology (of Pakistan) is to make Muslim brotherhood a living reality. It is therefore‚ part of the mission which Pakistan has set before
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China and Pakistan: Fair-Weather Friends By Michael Beckley Two assumptions dominate current debates on US foreign policy toward Pakistan. First‚ Pakistan shares a robust “allweather” friendship with China centered on core national interests. Second‚ Pakistan’s ability to turn to China in times of need insulates it from US pressure and renders hardline US policies counterproductive. Both of these assumptions are mistaken. First‚ China and Pakistan do not share a robust partnership; they
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Pakistan in the eyes of the World Pakistan is the most misjudged and misrepresented country in the media. As the media affects such a wide audience‚ it changes people perception toward foreign communities and eventually effect relationships between nations and also creates political discourses. People are very judgemental‚ when the word Pakistan comes up‚ usually terrorism is the first thing that pops up in everyone’s mind. Pakistan has sacrificed thousands of lives in the form of both soldiers
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Pakistani political institutions have been dominated by the military. Pakistan has had a military government for thirty of its fifty-eight years of independence. The Pakistani military is a descendent of the British Indian Army and has retained the institutional structure‚ culture‚ and imperial ethos of its colonial predecessor. (Ghafoor 2007 101-18) Similar observations can be made about the next most powerful institution in Pakistan‚ the civil bureaucracy. Most analysts of the Pakistani state and politics
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the South Asian subcontinent‚ Pakistan became a state as a result of the partition of British India on August 14‚ 1947. Pakistan annexed Azad (Free) Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-48. Initially‚ Pakistan also included the northeastern sector of the subcontinent‚ where Muslims are also in the majority. The East Wing and West Wing of Pakistan were‚ however‚ separated by 1‚600 kilometers of hostile Indian territory. The country’s East Wing‚ or East Pakistan‚ became the independent state
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NATURAL RESOURCES OF PAKISTAN NATURAL RESOURCES OF PAKISTAN Presented to Presented By GEOLOGY The science which deals with the physical structure and substance of the earth‚ their history‚ and the processes which act on them. Geology is mostly about what the ground is made up of from a natural perspective. What kind of rocks it contains and how those rocks or layers of rocks got there. Geology is the study of the Earth‚ as in the physical composition; rocks‚ volcanoes‚ mountains
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Shahab Ahmed: Madarsa Peace Prints: South Asian Journal of Peacebuilding‚ Vol. 2‚ No. 1: Autumn 2009 MADRASA EDUCATION IN THE PAKISTANI CONTEXT: CHALLENGES‚ REFORMS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS Zahid Shahab Ahmed Abstract Educational institutions in Pakistan function under three separate systems— public‚ private and madrasas. The media and the government turned their attention towards the madrasas only after the September 11‚ 2001 terrorist attacks‚ as there was a growing perception that terrorism in
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Future of democracy in Pakistan Outline 1)What is democracy 2) Democracy and Pakistan – Present‚ Past and Future 3) Importance of democracy 4)Threats to democracy 1. Weak political institutions 2. Influence of Military 3. Economic difficulties 4. Social Norms 5. Illiteracy – lack of political of awareness 6. Unemployment and poverty 7. Image of political leadership 8. Power politics 9. Foreign interference 10. Unbridled media 11. Feudalism and racism 12. Grievances of small provinces 13. Relation
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