PAKISTAN AT A GLANCE

The word “Pakistan” literally means “Land of (the) Pure” in Urdu and Persian. This name was chosen for the country during the pre-Partition Independence Movement [1], when Choudhary Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan Movement activist, published this name in his pamphlet “Now or Never” in 1934.

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