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  Asia-planet.net. Pakistan travel guide, the whole country.
Pakistan displays some of Asia’s most magnificent landscapes as it stretches from the Arabian Sea, its southern border, to some of the world’s most spectacular mountain ranges in the north.
Pakistan is also home to sites that date back to word’s earliest settlements rivaling those of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
The Arabian Sea is Pakistan’s southern boundary with 1,064 km of coastline.
www.asia-planet.net /pakistan/introduction.htm   (105 words)

  
  Pakistan
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a nation in south-central Asia bordering Iran, Afghanistan, China, India, and the Arabian Sea.
Pakistan is home to around 140 million people, most of whom are Muslim, which is the state religion.
Although the port city of Karachi was capital, the current capital of Pakistan is the city of Islamabad.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pa/Pakistan.html   (197 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Pakistan
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan (پاکستان in Urdu) is a nation in south-central Asia bordering Iran, Afghanistan, China, India, and the Arabian Sea.
Pakistan is a poor, heavily populated country, suffering from internal political disputes, lack of foreign investment, and a costly confrontation with neighboring India.
Pakistan's economic outlook continues to be marred by its weak foreign exchange position, notably its continued reliance on international creditors for hard currency inflows.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Pakistan   (448 words)

  
 Pakistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The general was assasinated 1988 and Pakistan returned to an elected ushered in with the election of Benazir Bhutto.
Pakistan is a the sixth most populous in the world faced with a number challenges on the political and economic fronts.
Pakistan's economy thought to be highly vulnerable external and internal shocks was unexpectedly resilient the face of adverse events such as Asian financial crisis global recession drought the military action in Afghanistan and tensions with In the two-and-a half year period since 9/11 attacks Pakistan's KSE-100 stock exchange index been the best-performing in the world.
www.freeglossary.com /Pakistan   (2337 words)

  
 Pakistan - Gurupedia
Pakistan is a heavily populated country, suffering from internal political and religious disputes, lack of foreign investment, and a costly confrontation with neighboring India.
Pakistan's economic outlook has brightened in recent years in conjunction with a great improvement in its foreign exchange position, notably its current-account surplus and rapid growth in hard currency reserves.
Pakistan's economy, thought to be highly vulnerable to external and internal shocks, was unexpectedly resilient in the face of adverse events such as the Asian financial crisis, global recession, drought, the post-9/11 military action in Afghanistan, and tensions with India.
www.gurupedia.com /p/pa/pakistan.htm   (1951 words)

  
 Pakistan
Pakistan's two largest mainstream parties are the Pakistan Peoples Party and the Pakistan_Muslim_League_(Q), which obtained a plurality in the October 2002 elections.
Pakistan, a developing country, is the sixth most populous in the world and is faced with a number of challenges on the political and economic fronts.
Pakistan's economy, once thought to be highly vulnerable to external and internal shocks, was unexpectedly resilient in the face of adverse events such as the Asian financial crisis, global recession, drought, the post-9/11 military action in Afghanistan, and military tensions with India.
www.mcfly.org /en/Pakistan   (3162 words)

  
 Communications in Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The sector is said to be growing at a pace of 170 per cent yearly.
Mobile subscribers crossed 41.5 million at the end of September 2006, according to Pakistan Telecommunications Authority(PTA), and 2.7 million subscribers are added monthly.
All Telecom companies are now working to broaden their network in AJK and Northern Areas, which were normally ignored till now.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communications_in_Pakistan   (433 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Pakistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The President of Pakistan is the Head of State and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, and is elected for a five-year term by the Electoral College of Pakistan andndash; comprising the Senate, the National Assembly, and the four Provincial Assemblies.
Pakistan is the second largest Muslim country in terms of population and its status as a declared nuclear power and the only Islamic nation to have that status also plays a part in its international role.
Pakistan's religious demographics were influenced by the movement of populations in 1947 (millions of Muslims moved to Pakistan and millions of Hindus and Sikhs moved to India) and the war in Afghanistan (millions of refugees who have become permanent residents).
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/pakistan   (6121 words)

  
 Pakistan
Pakistan is a poor country riven with ethnic and religious tensions.
The Pakistan Army a total strength of 520000, larger than that of the United States, with a reserve element of 500,000 who have a reserve obligation up to the age of 45 years.
Since the founding of Pakistan, the army has been key in holding the state together, promoting a feeling of nationhood among disparate peoples and providing a bastion of selfless service in the midst of a venal government system.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/pakistan/army.htm   (773 words)

  
 Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Pakistan imports more than they export which is not a good sign of a strong nation, as external debt and internal problems (evident of the military takeover last year) have created a declining economic situation.
The systemic variable in Pakistan is very important right now as some type of stability is trying to be reached by the new ruler of the country, though his idiosyncratic behavior to disrupt the elected government shows a clear sense of instability.
Pakistan receives economic aid in the range of 20% of their own revenue, though cautious, continued funding will be questioned as providers of this aid will want answers to all the internal turmoil that has hijacked the country in somewhat unknown waters.
www.u.arizona.edu /~volgy/pakistanfp.html   (4371 words)

  
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Pakistan and China said that disputes should be resolved amicably through dialogue and cooperation, instead of using force.
Pakistan said that its relations with China served as the “bedrock” of its foreign policy.
Pakistan and China agreed that terrorism and extremism posed great threats to regional peace, stability and security, and reaffirmed their commitment to cooperate in combating these menaces.
www.pakistanlink.com /Headlines/Nov06/26/11.htm   (637 words)

  
 Index of Economic Freedom 2006 - Pakistan
After 2001, Musharraf's swift abandonment of Pakistan's Taliban allies and cooperation in the war against al-Qaeda paid large economic dividends in the form of a major U.S. aid package, the dropping of U.S. economic sanctions imposed because of Pakistan's nuclear program, the rescheduling of Pakistan's large foreign debt, and increased economic aid from international organizations.
Pakistan's trade policy and government intervention scores are 0.5 point better this year, and its capital flows and foreign investment score, banking and finance score, and wages and prices score are 1 point better.
The World Bank reports that Pakistan's weighted average tariff rate in 2004 was 13 percent, down from the 15.2 percent for 2002 reported in the 2005 Index, based on World Bank data.
www.heritage.org /research/features/index/country.cfm?id=Pakistan   (1011 words)

  
 Pakistan: INTERVIEW President Pervez Musharraf
Pakistan is 97 per cent Muslim which, of course, is why it was partitioned from India in 1947.
Pakistan’s success has been recognized in a number of international arenas: in your new friendly status with the United States, your return to the British Commonwealth and your new cooperation agreement with European Union.
Pakistan was left high and dry after the Soviets left Afghanistan, with four million Afghan refugees coming here and nobody helping us.
www.nytimes.com /global/pakistan_interview   (3299 words)

  
 Pakistan - Atlapedia Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It is bound by India to the east, Afghanistan and Iran to the west, China to the north and the Arabian Sea to the south.
Fighting between the Hindus and Muslims continued even after the partition of India and in 1948 India and Pakistan went to war because Pakistan claimed Kashmir as most of its inhabitants are Muslims, although in 1949 the UN arranged a ceasefire.
In Oct. 1989 Pakistan was re-admitted to the Commonwealth and in Aug. 1990 Pres.
www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/pakistan.htm   (1601 words)

  
 IUCN Pakistan
The Pakistan Programme is headed by the Country Representative who is based at the Country Office in Karachi.
The IUCN Programme in Pakistan is characterized by a mix of policy and fieldwork at the federal, provincial and local levels bringing together government, civil society and private sector institutions.
Pakistan started work on its IP in early 2003, through a situation analysis of environmental, social and economic trends in the country.
www.iucn.org /places/pakistan/intro.htm   (1069 words)

  
 PACTEC - Pakistan earthquake relief efforts
The schedule of the staff assisting with relief in Pakistan is essentially non-stop, 24/7.
As in Banda Aceh, the UN OCHA loves us as our emergency communications facility brings in the NGOs to do their reporting on the much-needed data the UN is trying to collect and disseminate.
It has become apparent to relief agencies now in Pakistan and India that this earthquake is a humanitarian crisis of a magnitude that far exceeds anything in recent history.
www.pactec.org /pakistan_quake.htm   (1692 words)

  
 Pakistan Travel and culture services. Pakistan Tours Trips and hotel reservations.
Pakistan Tour Programs Tours Itineraries ranging from 4 days to 30 days, in different areas of Pakistan.
Pakistan Travel and Culture Services is a full service Tour Operator and Travel agent in Pakistan.
The company is established in Pakistan and is licensed by the government of Pakistan to handle all kinds of tours, Trekking, Jeep safaris adventure expeditions, Hotel reservations, and car rentals.
www.travel-culture.com   (375 words)

  
 Mountain Voices: oral testimonies from the Karakorum mountains, Pakistan
Northern Pakistan borders Afghanistan, China and India and is home to three significant mountain ranges: the Hindu Kush, the Western Himalaya, and the Karakoram.
Shimshal is one of the few communities in Pakistan's Northern Areas that grows enough agricultural produce to feed itself.
SNT developed their own environmental management plan to communicate to the authorities how Shimshal as a community has always sustainably managed their environment, and how they will continue to do so in the future.
www.mountainvoices.org /pakistan.asp   (1026 words)

  
 Pakistan and Satellite Communication Systems   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Intended to provide technical experience in telemetry, control, transponder and digital communications in preparation for further launches, the 150-lb satellite provided valuable data for 5 weeks After contact with the vehicle ceased on 20 August, all efforts to restore contact with the missing satellite failed.
Although Pakistan has expressed an interest to develop a GEO communications system, the country is still several years away from deploying the first satellite.
The Pakistan GEO constellation is being designed with a capacity of 4,800 long distance telephone channels, 2,400 rural circuits, and two direct broadcast television channels in the 14/11 GHz band.
www.fas.org /spp/guide/pakistan/comm/index.html   (347 words)

  
 Pakistan
Among U.S. allies in the war against terrorism, Pakistan cannot be easily characterized as either friend or foe.
Nuclear-armed Pakistan is an important center of radical Islamic ideas and groups.
But Pakistan’s status as an Islamic ideological state is closely linked with the Pakistani elite’s worldview and the praetorian ambitions of its military.
www.brookings.edu /press/books/clientpr/carnegie/pakistan.htm   (511 words)

  
 Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence [ISI] - Pakistan Intelligence Agencies
Field Marshal Ayub Khan, the president of Pakistan in the 1950s, expanded the role of ISI in safeguarding Pakistan's interests, monitoring opposition politicians, and sustaining military rule in Pakistan.
When martial Law was promulgated in 1958 all the intelligence agencies fell under the direct control of the President and Chief Martial Law Administrator, and the three intelligence agencies began competing to demonstrate their loyalty to Ayub Khan and his government.
Pakistan's top national security agency, the Army's Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, monitored the activities of and provided advice and support to the mujahidin, and commandos from the Army's Special Services Group helped guide the operations inside Afghanistan.
www.fas.org /irp/world/pakistan/isi   (1767 words)

  
 LEADER ARTICLE<br>Kashmir’s 1947 Whodunnit-Editorial-OPINION-The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
the prime minister concluded that the ‘‘obvious course is to strike at these concentrations and lines of communications in pakistan territory.
the indian army should be prepared to enter the sialkot, gujarat and jhelum districts of pakistan in order to deny the raiders the assistance they were getting at their bases.
meanwhile, the chiefs of staff were instructed to draw up contingency plans for a military operation to evict the raiders from their bases in pakistan.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow.asp?art_id=484873326   (1077 words)

  
 rediff.com: Claude Arpi on Britain's role in the Kashmir mess
If Pakistan is not prepared to help in putting an end to this war or even to try to withdraw these invaders then we should help ourselves, even by crossing some part of Pakistan territory and hitting at their concentrations.
In other words, he was not really interested by the merits of the case or whether Pakistan was on the wrong side of the fence; he wanted to avoid a war and its consequences for the United Kingdom.
Fifty-five years later, these territories are still in the possession of Pakistan and the same type of attacks are allowed from across the border, as a result of which tens of thousands have been killed in Kashmir and the Kashmiri Pandits, Nehru's own race, have been cleansed in the world's indifference.
www.rediff.com /news/2002/may/28claude.htm   (1872 words)

  
 CBC News In Depth: Pakistan
October 1998: Pakistan and India end their first peace talks in a year with agreement to meet again next February in New Delhi.
Pakistan bans religious and political gatherings after this latest bombing.
Origin of the name: "Pakistan" was coined by Muslim students at Cambridge University in Britain in 1933 as an acronym for the regions and nationalities that would make up the country: Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Iran, Sindh, Turkharistan, Afghanistan and Balochistan.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/pakistan   (1923 words)

  
 Asia Times -
So said the graffiti in villages in the Pashtun tribal belt of Pakistan some months ago, reflecting the extent to which the US hunt for bin Laden has become a butt of ridicule among the tribals.
What he did was to round up many poor Arabs living in Pakistan who had become a social pest and make them a charge on the US tax-payers' money.
It is the Pakistan army and the ISI who fathered not only the Taliban, but also al-Qaeda.
www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/EJ04Df05.html   (1268 words)

  
 WorldCALL Broadband Ltd. Selects Nuera Communications and Siemens Pakistan for Cable Voice over IP Deployment
They are building a network in metropolitan Karachi, Pakistan’s financial and commercial center, to address the sophisticated and demanding needs of residential and business customers.
Siemens Pakistan is the market leader in selling telecom solutions (GSM mobile, switching and transmission, access, broadband, enterprise networks and Internet solutions) to telecom operators in Pakistan.
In addition, Siemens Pakistan manufactures and exports power and distribution equipment, resells SAP and runs the SAP Academy in Pakistan, offers IT and automation solutions, and is active in medical engineering, and traffic and railway signaling.
www.nuera.com /news/pr061404_2.cfm   (685 words)

  
 Pakistan - Be Pakistani "www.pakpk.com"
Its establishment was the culmination of the struggle by Muslims of the South-Asian subcontinent for a separate homeland of their own and its foundation was laid when Muhammad bin Qasim subdued Sindh in 711 A.D. as a reprisal against sea pirates that had taken refuge in Raja Dahir's kingdom.
The advent of Islam further strengthened the historical individuality in the areas now constituting Pakistan and further beyond its boundaries.
The colorful, sometimes dazzling, art work on trucks, buses, tankers, and vehicles, which is found in a abundance in pakistan and hardly anywhere else in the world have fascinated and visitors from all over the world.
www.pakpk.com   (247 words)

  
 The Times of India
The inevitable clash between the prime minister and the governor-general occurred on December 20, in a meeting of the cabinet’s defence committee.
Mountbatten, in his capacity as chairman of the defence committee, stated flatly that no directive should be issued on these lines.
In 1947-48, it was virtually impossible for India to meet the requirements for secrecy and surprise since the defence committee and the armed forces were all headed by the British.
www.vepachedu.org /Kashmir-Pak.html   (1060 words)

  
 2005 » December » humanitarian.info
Yet this remains the primary means of communication for a lot of people, which ties in with the findings of the GSM Association, who have just released a report on mobile communications in emergency response.
Every single person I spoke to in Pakistan said the same thing: that the Pakistani military had done an amazing job on the earthquake relief.
The Pakistan earthquake happened just as I arrived in the USA, where I was carrying out an assessment of ICT capacity to respond to emergencies for the Interagency Working Group (IWG).
www.humanitarian.info /2005/12   (853 words)

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