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Pakistan WAG Home  //  Sitemap  //  ArnanFad -----------------------------------------------------------      In Urdu and Persian, the name Pakistan literally means "land of the pure".The word pāk meaning pure in Persian and Pashto. The suffix ستان  (-stān) is a Persian word meaning the place of, and also recalls the synonymous (and cognate) Sanskrit word sthāna. The name of the country was coined in 1933 as Pakistan by Choudhry Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan Movement activist. The Islamic Republic of Pakistan is located in the northwestern part of the South Asian subcontinent near the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman. It is bordered by Afghanistan, Iran, India, and China. Pakistan became a state as a result of the partition of British India on August 14, 1947. The country has the sixth largest population in the world and the second largest Muslim population in the world after Indonesia. And many Pakistan people also live in out of country. ...