Fun Fact: Did you know that Pakistan is actually an acronym..? Neither did I :P

The name is taken from the five regions that the British amalgamated into a new country:

Punjab, Afghania, KashmIr, Sindh and BaluchisTAN = PAKISTAN 🇵🇰

It also means "A land abounding in purity" in both Farsi and Pashto, so there is that :P

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Viper · M

Nope, I didn't realize or know this...

The very name Pakistan inscribes the nature of the problem. It is not a real country or nation but an acronym devised in the 1930s by a Muslim propagandist for partition named Chaudhary Rahmat Ali. It stands for Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, and Indus-Sind. Sep 15, 2008

SW-User

@Viper The same problem is present in Africa. Most of them are not real nations: just parcels of land divided up between Britain, France and Belgium with no thought of tribal lands or anything. Divide and Conquer again.

Viper · M

@SW-User I knew Africa had that problem.

Also I found it interesting how the Mid-East got it's name, basically British Millitary definition of near-east, Mid-East and far-east, though mainly just Mid-East has stood around...

SW-User

@Viper Yes, but that's not so much of a problem as Middle East is not a political entity.