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  2. Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    Pakistan,[e]officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan,[f]is a country in South Asia. It is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second-largest Muslim populationas of 2023.[8] Islamabadis the nation's capital, while Karachiis its largest cityand financial centre.

  3. Languages of Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    The script is used in Pakistan today, albeit unlike most other native languages of Pakistan, the Naskh style is more common for Sindhi writing than the Nasta'liq style. It has a total of 52 letters, augmenting the Urdu with digraphs and eighteen new letters ( ڄ ٺ ٽ ٿ ڀ ٻ ڙ ڍ ڊ ڏ ڌ ڇ ڃ ڦ ڻ ڱ ڳ ڪ ) for sounds particular to ...

  4. Sindhi language - Wikipedia

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    The script is used in Pakistan and India today. It has a total of 52 letters, augmenting the Persian with digraphs and eighteen new letters (ڄ ٺ ٽ ٿ ڀ ٻ ڙ ڍ ڊ ڏ ڌ ڇ ڃ ڦ ڻ ڱ ڳ ڪ ‎) for sounds particular to Sindhi and other Indo-Aryan languages. Some letters that are distinguished in Arabic or Persian are homophones in Sindhi.

  5. Pakistan Academy of Letters - Wikipedia

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    Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) The Pakistan Academy of Letters ( PAL) ( Urdu: اکادمیِ ادبیات پاکستان) is a national academy with its main focus on Pakistani literature and related fields. It is the largest and the most prestigious learned society of its kind in Pakistan, with activities throughout the nation.

  6. 2024 IHC judges' letter - Wikipedia

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    On 26 March 2024, six serving judges of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) wrote a letter to the Supreme Judicial Council of Pakistan (SJCP), alleging interference by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in judicial matters. The letter, authored by six judges: Mohsin Akhtar Kayani (senior puisne judge), Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, Babar Sattar ...

  7. Pakistan Declaration - Wikipedia

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    1922 map of British India. The "Pakistan Declaration" (titled Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?) was a pamphlet written and published by Choudhry Rahmat Ali, on 28 January 1933, in which the word Pakstan (without the letter "i") was used for the first time and was circulated to the delegates of the Third Round Table Conference in 1933.

  8. Pakistani literature - Wikipedia

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    Pakistani literature ( Urdu: ادبیاتِ پاکستان) is a distinct literature that gradually came to be defined after Pakistan gained nationhood status in 1947, emerging out of literary traditions of the South Asia. [1] The shared tradition of Urdu literature and English literature of British India was inherited by the new state.

  9. Azad Kashmir - Wikipedia

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    Azad Jammu and Kashmir [a] abbreviated as AJK and colloquially referred to as simply Azad Kashmir, is a region administered by Pakistan as a nominally self-governing entity [9] and constituting the western portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947. [1]