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The Islamic Republic of Pakistan appeared on the world map in 1947 after the partition of British India. More than 200 million people consider this rather small state to be their home, and this is the sixth indicator among the countries of the world. The British colonial past has left its mark on the history of the Islamic Republic and the state language of Pakistan, in addition to the national Urdu, is English.

Some statistics and facts

  • Despite the state status of Urdu, less than 8% of Pakistanis consider it native.
  • The first place among the prevalence of national languages ​​and dialects in the country is occupied by Punjabi. It is regularly spoken by almost 45% of the population. Second place for Pashto - 15.5%.
  • The national language of Pakistan, Urdu, originated in the 13th century and is related to Hindi. It belongs to the Indo-European group. Widespread in neighboring India, Urdu has the status of one of its 22 official languages. In India, up to 50 million people communicate on it.

Urdu: history and features

The name "Urdu" is related to the word "horde" and means "army" or "army". Its roots are in the Hindustani dialect, which has absorbed Persian, Arabic, and Turkic vocabulary and even Sanskrit since the time of the Great Moghuls.
Urdu is identical to Hindi, and legal differences only arose in 1881, when the religious aspect influenced the disengagement. Hindus began to speak Hindi, and Muslims began to speak Urdu. The first preferred to use Devanagari for writing, and the second - the Arabic alphabet.
By the way, the second state language of Pakistan has significantly influenced the modern Urdu and many borrowings from English have appeared in it.
About 60 million people speak Urdu in the world or consider it native, most of whom live in India. In Pakistan, this language is a compulsory school subject, it is used by official bodies and administrative institutions.
The world significance of Urdu, as the language of a large part of the Islamic population, is very high. This confirms the duplication in the state language of Pakistan of most of the signs in Mecca and Medina - the sacred places of pilgrimage for Muslims around the world.

Note to the tourist

Due to the state status of English, tourists in Pakistan usually do not have problems with communication. All maps, restaurant menus, traffic patterns and public transport stops are translated into English. It is owned by taxi drivers, waiters, hotel workers and the vast majority of ordinary residents of the country.

Pakistan is a multinational state. In addition, the peoples living here strive for religious, tribal and territorial isolation, which gives rise to a huge number of dialects, many of which can be considered independent languages. And yet, seven main ones can be distinguished by answering the question of which language is the main one in Pakistan.

Urdu

Urdu is not the mother tongue of most peoples in Pakistan. It is considered as such by no more than 8% of the population. However, it is official in Pakistan and is taught in schools across the country, the national media necessarily broadcast in this language. Therefore, all Pakistanis at least understand it. Sometimes this situation comes to the ridiculous and sad. For example, it is not uncommon for a Pashtun to be able to write in Urdu, but is illiterate in his native language environment.

Urdu is the "twin" of official Hindi. Moreover, many linguists consider Urdu and Hindi to be the same language. It's just that the "language of the High City" (this is how the name "Urdu" is translated, the High City is, by the way, Delhi) was once divided along religious lines. Muslim speakers began to use the Arabic alphabet, while Hindus remained in the Sanskrit Devanagari (image below).

The division of the British colonies in this region along religious lines led to the fact that Urdu and Hindi became even more isolated, becoming the official languages ​​of the conflicting states. In Urdu, more Persian and Arabic words appeared, while in Hindi, on the contrary, it decreased. Although native speakers of these two languages ​​​​understand each other without problems.

Urdu is very famous for its nastalk graphics. This Persian-influenced calligraphic style made the Arabic characters shorter, and the word is no longer a purely vertical line. The letters on the desktop seem to penetrate each other, together forming an outwardly beautiful graphic combination: the word looks like some kind of symbol.

Because of this, for a long time books in Pakistan were partly handwritten. A typographical set of such words was impossible. The book was written by hand, and then lithographs from handwritten sheets were sent to the printing press. Only the introduction of computer typing eliminated this problem. However, it is not relevant. In official printed publications, standard Arabic naskh is used, and nastalq has acquired a more decorative and design character. The Pakistani public is concerned about the replacement with Latin ones. This is especially true of the younger generation. Main reasons: computers and mobile devices are not well adapted for Arabic script.

Linguistically, Urdu is a typical Indo-Iranian language. And yet, let's name its features: "quivering" attitude to pronouns - here they manage to be divided into nouns, adjectives and numerals, and it is "forbidden" to say directly "This is not me" with the language. You have to say something like "Someone". Urdu uses postpositions that are not very popular throughout the language world. These are the same prepositions, but after the word.

English

We won't talk much about him. It is not native to any of the peoples of Pakistan. However, in the era of English rule, it spread, performing the functions of the language of interethnic communication. It retains this function even now, being the second official language of Pakistan, although it is noticeably inferior in popularity. Therefore, it is quite possible that the country will refuse it altogether.

Punjabi (Punjabi)

The most widely spoken language in Pakistan. In the eastern part of the country, it is spoken by eight out of ten Pakistanis (that's somewhere around 76 million people). As a percentage, it is 44 percent of all languages ​​in Pakistan. It is very similar to Urdu because it is related to it.

Pashto

A significant part of the population of Pakistan are Pashtuns, which makes their language the second most common (15%). The trouble with Pashto is that each tribe strives to speak in a special way, emphasizing its "self". A huge number of dialects even makes linguists doubt the existence of a single Pashto language, which, despite being related to Urdu, has acquired its own special letters in the alphabet. Even in writing, the Pashtuns tried to stand out: they invented the tahriri calligraphic style. Simplified, but your own.

Sindhi

The language of the Indian people is Sindhi. There are a lot of them in Pakistan, which gives the language 14% of the prevalence. Sindhi, like Urdu, was divided along religious lines between India and Pakistan with the same consequences. True, while it is called both there and there the same. Of the "eccentricities" of Sindhi, we note the absence of the middle gender and direct pronouns of the third person. However, Sindhis, like all the peoples of the country, are at least bilingual. They also speak English here.

Sirayki

The language of the Siraika people living in the northeast of Pakistan. There are also a lot of Siraiks (or southern Punjabis, that is, Muslim Punjabis) - in the language share of languages, almost 11%. The language is also shared between India and Pakistan. Siraiqis write in Arabic, while northern Punjabis in Indian Punjab use the Hindu Gurmukhi alphabet.

Baloch

The last among the popular (4%) languages ​​of Pakistan is the language of the Iranian people Balochi. Distributed in the southwest of the country, naturally, in the province of Balochistan. This language is Iranian and therefore stands apart from other languages ​​of Pakistan. For the rest of the peoples, there are no special problems in interethnic communication due to linguistic affinity. After all, there is also Urdu and English.

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Punjabi. Pashto. Urdu The name "Urdu" is related to the word "horde" and means "army" or "army". Its roots are in the Hindustani dialect, which has absorbed Persian, Arabic, and Turkic vocabulary and even Sanskrit since the time of the Great Moghuls. Urdu is identical to Hindi, and legal differences only arose in 1881, when the religious aspect influenced the disengagement. Hindus began to speak Hindi, and Muslims began to speak Urdu. The first preferred to use Devanagari for writing, and the second - the Arabic alphabet. By the way, the second state language of Pakistan has significantly influenced the modern Urdu and many borrowings from English have appeared in it. About 60 million people speak Urdu in the world or consider it native, most of whom live in India. In Pakistan, this language is a compulsory school subject, it is used by official bodies and administrative institutions. The world significance of Urdu, as the language of a large part of the Islamic population, is very high. This confirms the duplication in the state language of Pakistan of most of the signs in Mecca and Medina - the sacred places of pilgrimage for Muslims around the world. Source: https://www.votpusk.ru/story/article.asp?ID=15905#ixzz4Oa6OlKbs

Pakistan is a federal state (Article 1) which consists of the provinces of Budejistan, Punjab, Sindh and the North-West Frontier Province and Tribal Center Areas (UTSTP) and the capital (federal district) Islamabad. Under Pakistani control, the so-called Northern Territories and the Republic of Azad Kashmir (Free Kashmir)

The system of government in the provinces of Pakistan is largely copied by the federal system.

The head of the executive branch of the province is the governor, who is appointed by the president. The governor is the governing body in the province (Article 101). The Governor calls the Provincial Legislative Assembly in session; appoints members of the government; has the right to suspend the veto in relation to all legislative acts, except for financial ones; in the period between meetings of the Assembly, issue decrees with legal force; has the right to dissolve the legislator and form a provisional government.

The legislature is a provincial legislature elected for a five-year term, the population of the province in elections, as a rule, coincides with the time of the parliamentary elections.

Members are formed by the government; It is collectively responsible to the Legislative Assembly. The governor appoints a deputy to the position of chief minister, who, in his opinion, instructs the majority of the members of the Provincial Assembly. When the chief minister loses this confidence, the governor sends him into retirement. Members of the Cabinet are appointed by the Governor on the advice of the Chief Minister.

There is a division of responsibilities between the center and the provinces.

Responsibility of the central government: defense, military, intelligence, foreign policy, strategic industrial projects, citizenship, financial sector, energy (including nuclear), fisheries and other matters (Annex 4 of the Constitution).

Common center of competence and provinces: criminal law, civil litigation, property matters (except for certain types of land), social security, environmental issues, trade unions and labor disputes, inland waterway shipping, power generation, and others.

The competences of the regions include issues such as water, local roads, local infrastructure, basic education, etc.

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Islamabad

Islamabad

PAKISTAN Islamic Republic of Pakistan Area: 803.9 thousand km2. Population: 137 million (1997). State language: Urdu. Capital: Islamabad (201 thousand inhabitants, 1997). Public holiday: Independence Day (August 14, since 1947) Monetary unit: Pakistani rupee. Member of the UN since 1948, OIC and others. Pakistan ("Land of the Pure") appeared on the world map in 1947.

After the partition of colonial India. Located in South Asia. It borders Iran to the west, Afghanistan to the northwest, China to the north, and India to the east and northeast. In the south it is washed by the waters of the Arabian Sea. The population of Pakistan is made up of Punjabis, Sindhis, Pashtuns and Balochis, as well as refugees from India, referred to in Pakistan as Muhaji-Rami.

Each of these national communities is in turn divided into smaller national communities. A significant part of the wealthy elite of the main nationalities actually formed a single all-Pakistani elite. In addition to those already mentioned, the country is also home to Zvans, Gujaratis, Dravidians, Kashmiris, Kohistanis, Persians, Sikhs, as well as Pashtun tribes, who consider belonging to a tribe to be primary compared to belonging to a nationality.

No matter how great was the power of Muslims over the local population, mostly Hindus, but in terms of numbers, Hindus always remained the overwhelming majority. When the British ruled India, Hindus and Muslims were treated equally as subjects of the British crown. However, when the question arose of the departure of the British and the granting of independence to India, the problem of the compatibility of the two confessional communities, their joint residence in one state, suddenly became extremely acute.

Both the British and the Indians, for various reasons, supported the idea of ​​maintaining the unity of India. M. A. Jinnah, who headed the Muslim League party, developed the so-called "two-nation theory", according to which Muslims and Hindus are two separate nations with different cultures, traditions and worldviews.

At the session of the Muslim League in Lahore in 1940, a resolution prepared by him was adopted demanding the creation of two independent Muslim states in the northern part of British _ India: one in the northwest (Punjab, Sindh, the North-West Frontier province, Balochistan, and also Kashmir); the other is in the northeast (as part of Bengal and Assam).

In 1946, at a conference of Muslim parliamentarians, a resolution was adopted on the creation of a single independent state of Muslims in South Asia - Pakistan.

In 1947, two dominions arose in place of British India - the Indian Union and Pakistan. Until 1971, Pakistan included East Bengal, but after the Indian-Pakistani war, an independent state of Bangladesh was formed on the site of its eastern province. Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan, where state and government institutions are located - the parliament, the presidential palace, the government secretariat, ministries and departments, diplomatic missions. A major center of science and education: the university, institutes of nuclear science and technology, economic development, strategic research, etc. are concentrated here.

The city was built in 1960 - 1970. near the city of Rawalpindi. Nearby is the international airport. Karachi (the capital of Pakistan in 1947 - 1959) is the largest city in the country, the main trade, economic and financial center, the sea gate, the administrative center of Sindh province. Originated at the beginning of the 18th century. on the site of a fishing village. Located in the Indus River Delta on the coast of the Arabian Sea.

The largest commercial banks, central offices and branches of insurance companies, stock and cotton exchanges are located in Karachi. The international airport serves the largest airlines in the world. There is also a naval base, one of the main universities, colleges and research institutions. Approximately 40% of all industrial production is concentrated in the suburbs of Karachi

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Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan Peshawar is the capital of the northwestern regions of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan.

Islamabad

Islamabad

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Geographically, Pakistan and India are located near the Hindustani peninsula. However, religious differences and territorial divisions make it extremely difficult for countries to transfer their neighborhoods. If in India the majority of people pronounce Hinduism, then in the region of modern Pakistan in VII. Centuries began to spread Islam.

The State of Pakistan was founded in 1947 under British India. The territory of the colonies, populated mainly by Muslims, was divided into two countries - West and East Pakistan. In 1971, after a short war, he won with the help of India, the situation in Bangladesh arose in the territory of East Pakistan.

When the territories were partitioned, the official unallocated region of Kashmir remained, and the bone still remains between India and Pakistan. However, not only external factors undermine political stability. The country is dominated by competitive family clans; Sometimes an army is captured. The last blow occurred in 1999. General Pervez Musharraf, who came to power, stepped down on August 18, 2008 when he lost support from the military and foreign allies, especially the United States.

He was elected President of Pakistan by Asif Zardari, the man who was assassinated on the eve of the resignation of Musharraf, leader of the Pakistan People's Party Benazir Bhutto.

autonomous country

Those who want to visit Pakistan should prepare for drastic climate change.

In the northern tower, covered with snow and ice, magnificent peaks 8000 m high, in the south of the Arabian Sea there are about 60,000 km2 of marshland, and the Balochistan desert is considered the driest place on Earth.

The center of Pakistani life is the Punjab Lagoon, irrigated by the Indus and its five tributaries. More than half of Pakistan's population lives here in the great fertile valley. This is not only the main granary of the state, but also the main region of industrial production. To the west, on the border with Afghanistan, time seemed to be frozen. People here, like thousands of years ago, live in communities that emphasize their independence from the central government in Islamabad.

This is especially noticeable in the Swat Valley in the northwest of the country. When the area, which has unique monuments of the pre-Islamic era, which unusually combines the Hellenistic and Buddhist traditions, was the main attraction of Pakistan. Today it is completely under the control of the Taliban fundamentalists. Show here that there is no danger not only that tourists, but also government officials and historical and cultural monuments are subjected to barbaric destruction.

In February 2009, Islamic law was introduced into the valley in agreement with the authorities of the northwestern province.

general information

Official name: Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
Administrative divisions: four autonomous provinces (Punjab, Sindh, North Western Province and Balochistan) and the Federal Capital Territory of Islamabad.

Form of government: Federal Republic.

Borders: with Iran, Afghanistan, China and India.
Capital: Islamabad (since 1961, the population is about 800 thousand inhabitants).

Languages: Urdu (official), Hindi and English.

Currency: Pakistani rupee.

Religions: Islam (97%), Christianity, Hinduism.

The largest cities are Karachi (11 million inhabitants), Lahore (5.5 million inhabitants).

The most important rivers are the Indus and its tributaries.

figures

Area: 803,946 km2.

Population: 172.8 million people.
Population density: 202 people.

The highest point: Mount Chogor (K-2) - 8611 m, this is the second highest mountain on Earth; almost 40 peaks above 7000 m.

economy

Agriculture: growing rice, corn and cotton.
Livestock.
Minerals: coal, copper.
Pakistan is forced to import the most important raw materials.
Industry: chemical and textile industry, machinery, automobiles.

Attractions

■ Punjab (the historical capital of Lahore, with famous gardens and the Badshahi Mosque).
■ City of Multan (Palace of Islamic Islam).
Deserts in Balochistan.
■ In the southern province of Sindh, the city of Karachi and the Thar desert.

Unusual facts

■ Nearly half of the Pakistani population is under the age of 15.
■ All new laws in Pakistan are checked against the Koran.
■ The word "Pakistan" means "country of purity" and consists of individual letters that appear in the names of the four provinces.

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Full nameIslamic Republic of PakistanRegionCentral AsiaForecastRepublicCapitalIslamabadArea, km 234 in the world 803,940Population, people6 in the world 170,532,000forecast

At the current rate of population growth, the population of Pakistan will be:

in 2020 - 199 082 372 people
in 2030 - 232 412 632 people

in 2050 - 316 747 776 people
in 2075 - 466 423 989 people

in 2100 - 686 828 303 people

Population growth, per year74 in the world 1,56% 2 660 299 people Average duration
life, years 63.8 (male 62.7, female 64.8) 136 in the world
(131 - male, 140 - female) Population density, person/km237 in the world 212.12Official languagesUrdu, EnglishCurrencyPakistani rupeeInternational dialing code92Internet.pkzoneTime zonewhat time is it?

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UTC+5International organizations that include PakistanCommonwealth of NationsLand borders Afghanistan, India, IranAccess to the seas and oceansArabian Sea

Pakistan is a state in the center of Asia, washed by the Arabian Sea of ​​the Indian Ocean from the south.

The name "Pakistan" was first coined in the 20th century as an acronym for the provinces: P enjab, A fgania, TO ashmir, AND ran, WITH indus, T oharistan, A fghanistan, Balochista N).

Also, the resulting acronym can be translated as “country of the pure (blameless)”, since “pak” in Persian means “pure”.