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Etymology

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The name Pakistan (IPA: [paːkɪst̪aːn]) means Land of (the) Pure in Urdu and Persian (Farsi). It was coined in 1934 as Pakstan by Choudhary Rahmat Ali, who published it in his pamphlet Now or Never.[10] The name represented the "thirty million Muslims of PAKISTAN, who live in the five Northern Units of British RajPunjab, Afghania (also known as North-West Frontier Province), Kashmir, Sindh, and Balochistan."[11]

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