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"Paki" is part of the exonym Pakistan. It is derived from the term Pak (پاک) which means "purity" in Persian, Urdu and Pashto. There was no "Pak" or "Paki" ethnic group before the state was created.
Zabân-e Pâk (Persian: زبان پاک, lit. 'Pure language') is a treatise written in 1944 by Ahmad Kasravi, an Iranian author, contains an edition of the Persian language, which shows some difficulties in refining the language.
Absheron Rayon Astara and Astara (rayon) There are two main theories for the etymology of the city's name. One is that it is derived from the Persian or Talysh word آهسته رو (Aste-ro or Aheste-ro), meaning "the place where the travel gets slower" (given the marshlands that surrounded the region before).
Persian had a long history in the lands of Pakistan and was the cultural language of the erstwhile Mughal Empire, a continuation since the introduction of the language by Central Asian Turkic invaders who migrated into the Indian Subcontinent, [52] and the patronisation of it by the earlier Turko-Persian Delhi Sultanate.
Pre-Islamic traditions, dating back to Alexander's defeat of the Persian Empire in 330 BC, possibly survived in the form of traditional dances, while literary styles and music reflect influence from the Persian tradition and regional musical instruments fused with localized variants and interpretation.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Pakistan "undertook a series of highly coordinated and specifically targeted precision military strikes against terrorist hideouts" that killed "a number of terrorists" in an operation codenamed "Marg Bar Sarmachar", [19] adding that the attacks were launched due to "lack of action" by Iran regarding ...
Before the British colonised the Indian subcontinent, Persian was the region's lingua franca and a widely used official language in what are now north India and Pakistan. . The language was brought into the region by various Turkic, Persian and Afghan dynasties, in particular the Turko-Afghan Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Dyna
Moreover, in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Dastgir is common amongst the Pashtuns.As a surname it is often mated to Ghulam or Amir as first names. Ghulam Dastgir meaning "servant of the saint(s)" and Amir Dastgir meaning "command of the saints" or "commander of the saints" (the latter just emphasizing the original meaning, "saint of saints") or simply "princely saint".