The territory that now constitutes Pakistan was the site of several ancient

cultures, including the Mehrgarh of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age Indus Valley
Civilisation, and was later home to kingecession of East Pakistan as the new
country of Bangladesh.[29] In 1973 Pakistan adopted a new constitution
establishing, alongside its pre-existing parliamentary republic status, a federal
government based in Islamabad consisting of four provinces and four federal
territories. The new constitution also stipulated that all laws are to conform to
the injunctions of Islam as laid down in the Quran and Sunnah.[30]

A regional[31][32][33] and middle power,[34][35][36] Pakistan has the sixth-largest

standing armed forces in the world and is also a nuclear power as well as a
declared nuclear-weapons state, the second in South Asia and the only nation in the
Muslim world to have that status. Pakistan has a semi-industrialised economy with a
well-integrated agriculture sector and a growing services sector.[37][38] The
Pakistani economy is the 24th-largest in the world in terms of purchasing power and
the 41st-largest in terms of nominal GDP (World Bank). It is ranked among the
emerging and growth-leading economies of the world,[39][40] and is backed by one of
the world's largest and fastest-growing middle clas
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carry you through troubled times and protects you from danger. The wisdom of their
teachings shows the way to true peace and prosperity and to live in harmony with
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ountry with a population exceeding 212,742,631 people.[18] In area, it is the 33rd-

largest country, spanning 881,913 square kilometres (340,509 square miles).
Pakistan has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile) coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf
of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west,
Iran to the southwest, and China in the far northeast. It is separated narrowly
from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor in the northwest, and also shares
a maritime border with Oman.

The territory that now constitutes Pakistan was the site of several ancient
cultures, including the Mehrgarh of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age Indus Valley
Civilisation, and was later home to kingdoms ruled by people of different faiths
and cultures, including Hindus, Indo-Greeks, Muslims, Turco-Mongols, Afghans, and
Sikhs. The area has been ruled by numerous empires and dynasties, including the
Persian Achaemenid Empire, Alexander III of Macedon, the Indian Mauryan Empire, the
Arab Umayyad Caliphate, the Gupta Empire,[25] the Delhi Sultanate, the Mongol
Empire, the Mughal Empire, the Afghan Durrani Empire, the Sikh Empire (partially),
and, most recently, the British Empire.

Pakistan is the only country to have been created in the name of Islam.[26][27] As
a result of the Pakistan Movement led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the subcontinent's
struggle for independence, Pakistan was created in 1947 as an independent homeland
for Indian Muslims.[28] It is an ethnically and linguistically diverse country,
with a similarly diverse geography and wildlife. Initially a dominion, Pakistan
adopted a constitution in 1956, becoming an Islamic republic. An ethnic civil war
in 1971 resulted in the secession of East Pakistan as the new country of
Bangladesh.[29] In 1973 Pakistan adopted a new constitution establishing, alongside
its pre-existing parliamentary republic status, a federal government based in
Islamabad consisting of four provinces and four federal territories. The new
constitution also stipulated that all laws are to conform to the injunctions of
Islam as laid down in the Quran and Sunnah.[30]

A regional[31][32][33] and middle power,[34][35][36] Pakistan has the sixth-largest

standing armed forces in the world and is also a nuclear power as well as a
declared nuclear-weapons state, the second in South Asia and the only nation in the
Muslim world to have that status. Pakistan has a semi-industrialised economy with a
well-integrated agriculture sector and a growing services sector.[37][38] The
Pakistani economy is the 24th-largest in the world in terms of purchasing power and
the 41st-largest in terms of nominal GDP (World Bank). It is ranked among the
emerging and growth-leading economies of the world,[39][40] and is backed by one of
the world's largest and fastest-growing middle clas