10 Things You Didn't Know About Pakistan
10 things you didn't know about Pakistan welcome to a TopX today revealing so interesting and surprising facts about the Southeast Asian country of Pakistan the Islamic Republic of Pakistan as it's officially known is bordered by India Afghanistan Iran China and the Arabian Sea the territory where current day Pakistan is located was the site of several ancient cultures and later kingdoms ruled by Hindus Muslims Afghans Sikhs and others it has been ruled by various empires and dynasties including most recently the British Empire Pakistan is the only Muslim country that has been created in the name of Islam and again its independence as a result of the Pakistan movement led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah on August 14 1947 after the United Kingdom agreed to the partitioning of India if you are new here welcome it's time to take a closer look at this fascinating country with the 10 things you didn't know about Pakistan.
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Pakistan is the fifth most populous
60% of footballs are made in Pakistan Sialkot
60% of footballs are made in Pakistan Sialkot is a relatively small city in Punjab Pakistan that exports about two billion dollars worth of goods per year about 10 percent of Pakistan's total exports notably Sialkot is the world's largest producer of hand-sewn footballs or plug your ears real quick if you're not American soccer balls as they're referred to in the US their local factories manufacture between forty and six million footballs a year which is roughly 60% of the world population see Alcott is the world's largest center of surgical instrument manufacturing as well.
Pakistan
means land of the pure
Pakistan means land of
the pure the name Pakistan was created out of the first letters of the
Pakistani people's homeland of Punjab Afghani a Kashmir Iran Sindh to Karastan
and Afghanistan and the last several letters of their other homeland Baluchistan
the word Pakistan also means land of the pure in Urdu and Persian
The khewra salt mine in Pakistan is the largest and oldest salt mine in the world
The Youngest Nobel Peace Prize Winner Came From Pakistan
The youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner came from Pakistan Malala yousufzai became the world's youngest Nobel laureate in history in 2014 receiving the Nobel Peace Prize when she was just 17 years old as a young teenager Malala defied the Taliban in Pakistan and fought for girls to receive an education her activism resulted in the Taliban issuing a death threat against her when she was 15 years old she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman but she survived and became an even more outspoken advocate for all children to have equal access to education Malala is one of only two Nobel Prize winners that have come from Pakistan the other was Abdul Salam who won the award for physics in 1979.
Pakistan has the sixth largest armed
force in the world
Pakistan had the first female prime
minister of any Muslim country
Pakistan had the first female prime minister of any Muslim country Benazir Bhutto served as the prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996 making her the first woman to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority nation tragically Bhutto was assassinated in 2007 as she was waving to a crowd from an opening in the roof of her bulletproof car an unidentified man fired three shots at her and then detonated the suicide vest he was wearing fatally injuring the prime minister.
Pakistan would not give permission to
film zero dark thirty in their country
Pakistan would not give permission to film zero dark thirty in their country the leader of al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden was killed on May 2nd 2011 by US Special Forces during a raid in Abbott bad Pakistan the 2012 film zero dark thirty was a dramatic depiction of the hunt for bin Laden after the September 11th attacks and his eventual death at the hands of SEAL team 6 although Pakistan was obviously an important backdrop for the story the filmmakers request to film in the country were denied by the government instead the Pakistani scenes were filmed in India which brought protests from Hindu nationalist party members who objected to Pakistani locations being portrayed on Indian soil the film was widely acclaimed and was one of the most successful movies of 2012 at the box office.
Pakistan is one of two Muslim
countries that open military combat jobs to women
Pakistan is one of two Muslim countries that open military combat jobs to women Women have been fighting in the Pakistani military ever since the country was founded in 1947 currently they're about 4,000 women in active duty in the Pakistani armed forces including female fighter pilots as of 2006 Pakistan is the only Muslim majority country other than Turkey to allow females to hold combat roles within the military.
Marvel has a female Pakistani
American superhero
Marvel has a female
Pakistani American superhero Kamala Khan who was the superhero name of Miss
Marvel in a teenage Pakistani American superhero character that debuted in
August 2013 becoming Marvel's first Muslim character to headline their own
comic book Khan has shape-shifting abilities and inhuman genes Miss Marvel VOL
1 no normal was the best-selling graphic novel in October 2014 and it reached
number 2 on the New York Times bestseller list of graphic books.
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