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Pakistan's census does not include the 1.4 million citizens of Afghanistan who are temporarily residing in Pakistan. [8] [9] [10] The majority of them were born in Pakistan within the last four decades and mostly belong to the Pashtun ethnic group. They also include Tajiks, Uzbeks and others. [11]
South Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka; South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone (ZPCAS or ZOPACAS): group of nations along the Atlantic coasts of Sub-Saharan Africa and South America, formed with a special focus on opposing nuclear proliferation in the region; SSA: Sub-Saharan Africa
The E9 is a forum of nine countries, which was formed to achieve the goals of UNESCO's Education For All (EFA) initiative. [1] The “E” stands for education and the “9” represents the following nine countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan, [2] representing over half of the world's population and 70% of the world's illiterate adults.
[9] They are considered unique among the people of Pakistan, [web 2] [web 1] [10] and form Pakistan's smallest ethnoreligious group, [web 5] practising what authors consider as a form of animism and ancestor worship [a] with elements of Indo-Iranian (Vedic-or Hindu-like) religion. [b]
Party Name Date Joined Date Left Reason Pakistan Muslim League (PML) National People's Party (NPP) March 1992 [10] Dismissed Jamaat Islami: 5 May 1992 [11] [12] Left in protest over the government's support of the Mujahidin government in Kabul, Afghanistan. Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Darkhwasty Group) Nizam-i-Mustafa Group: Markazi Jamiat Ahle ...
The Pakistan National Alliance (Urdu: پاکستان قومی اتحاد, Acronym: PNA), was a populist and consolidated right and left political alliance, consisting of nine political parties of the country.
The Shina (Shina: ݜݨیاٗ, Ṣiṇyaá) or Gilgitis [7] are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group [8] primarily residing in Gilgit–Baltistan and Indus Kohistan in Pakistan, as well as in the Dras Valley and Kishenganga Valley Gurez,chanderkot in the northern region of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh in India . [9]
[2] [3] The majority of Pakistan's languages belong to the Indo-Iranian group of the Indo-European language family. [4] [5] Urdu is the national language and the lingua franca of Pakistan, and while sharing official status with English, it is the preferred and dominant language used for inter-communication between different ethnic groups.