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BBC News Country Profile: Pakistan in Pakistan Directory

 

Provides overview, key facts and events, timelines and leader profiles along with current news. Country profile: Pakistan, The Muslim-majority state of Pakistan occupies an area which was home to some of the earliest human settlements and where two of the worlds major religions, Hinduism and Buddhism, were practised. The modern state was born out of the partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947 and has faced both domestic political upheavals and regional confrontations.

 

Website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/country_profiles/1157960.stm