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The Pakistani community in the United States also remits the largest share of any Pakistani diaspora community since 2002/03, surpassing those from Saudi Arabia which from 2000/01 were $309.9 million and increased to $1.25 billion by 2007/08 and during the same period remittances from the United States increased from $73.3 million to $1.72 billion.
Sadia Shepard – filmmaker and author. Saeeda Imtiaz – Pakistani-American actress. Salman Ahmad – founder and member of Junoon; [76] lives in New York; a UN Goodwill Ambassador [77][78] Sameer A. Gardezi – Pakistani-American screenwriter for film and television best known for his work on Modern Family.
Religion. Predominantly Islam minorities of Christianity, Hinduism, and Sikhism. Overseas Pakistanis (Urdu: بیرون ملک پاکستانی نژاد), or the Pakistani diaspora, refers to Pakistanis who live outside of Pakistan. These include citizens that have migrated to another country as well as people born abroad of Pakistani descent.
Pakistanis (Urdu: پاكِستانى قوم, romanized: Pākistānī Qaum, lit. 'Pakistani Nation') are the citizens and nationals of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Pakistan is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second-largest Muslim population as of 2023. [28][29] As much as 90% of the ...
American Ambassador to Pakistan Donald Blome. Pakistan and the United States established relations on 15 August 1947, a day after the independence of Pakistan, when the United States became one of the first nations to recognize the country. The relationship between the two nations has been described as a "roller coaster" characterized by close ...
American people of Pakistani descent by occupation. Pakistani emigrants to the United States. American people of Baloch descent. American people of Azad Kashmiri descent. American people of Hazara descent. American people of Kashmiri descent. American people of Parsi descent. American people of Pashtun descent. American people of Punjabi descent.
American people of Pakistani descent (10 C, 114 P) C. ... Pakistani emigrants to the United States (244 P) P. Pakistani-American mass media (1 C, 3 P)
History. In 2001 a woman being questioned by an off-duty sheriff's deputy about a theft at a grocery store in northwest Houston fell ill and died. Afterwards, the Pakistan Association of Greater Houston, the Islamic Society of Greater Houston (ISGH), and the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) were scheduled to form a committee about ...