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The British left a large network of railways, roads, as well as the telephone and telegraph system. [citation needed] The first railway line in the modern-day Pakistan was constructed in 1858 in Karachi. A line between Karachi City and Kotri opened in 1861. [7] The railway network built by the British remains intact today. [8]
Under the British, modern Pakistan was mostly divided into the Sind Division, Punjab Province, and the Baluchistan Agency. There were various princely states , of which the largest was Bahawalpur . Sindh was part of the Bombay Presidency , and there were many complaints over the years that it was neglected by its distant rulers in modern Mumbai ...
The Dominion of Pakistan, officially Pakistan [3], was an independent federal dominion in the British Commonwealth of Nations, which existed from 14 August 1947 to 23 March 1956. It was created by the passing of the Indian Independence Act 1947 by the British parliament , which also created an independent Dominion of India .
The Swiss community in Pakistan numbered 336 people as of 2014, based on embassy registrations. [6] [7] [8] There is also a small Austrian expatriate group. [9] Czechs in Pakistan are a small community consisting of expatriates, and Czech nationals married to Pakistanis. A Czech Film Club was set up in Islamabad by the Czech embassy, as of 2004.
This effect was notable in British colonies, as the British invented many of what later became the world's most popular sports during the colonial era, [77] and propagated these sports in part because they allowed for the perpetuation of class and racial divides beneficial to them, [78] and due to the belief that they would help spread Britain ...
British people in Pakistan (Urdu: برطانوی باشندے) consist of British people and their descendants who emigrated from the United Kingdom. A sizeable number of Britons in Pakistan are British Pakistanis , descendants of Pakistani immigrants to the UK prior to their return.
Following the partition, there were perhaps 330 million people in India, 30 million in West Pakistan, and 30 million people in East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh). [109] Once the boundaries were established, about 14.5 million people crossed the borders to what they hoped was the relative safety of religious majority.
3 June: British Government decides to separate British India, into two sovereign Dominions of India and Pakistan. 8 July: Constituent Assembly of Pakistan approves the design of Pakistan. 26 July: The Gazette of India publishes that the first Constituent Assembly of Pakistan was given shape with 69 members (later on the membership was increased ...