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September 26, 2005

Pakistan is an acronym

Filed under: did-you-know

Here’s an interesting tidbit:

Recently Saugata noted that the name “Pakistan” is in fact an acronym:

In a 1933 pamphlet Choudhary Rahmat Ali, a Cambridge student, coined the name Pakstan (later Pakistan), on behalf of those Muslims living in Punjab, Afghan (North-West Frontier Province), Kashmir, Sind, and Balochistan. Alternatively the name was said to mean “Land of the Pure.”

(from Pakistan - History - Background to partition.)

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