English > Pakistan: 1 sense > noun 1, location| Meaning | A Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient south Asian civilization in the Indus River valley; formerly part of India; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947. |
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| Synonyms | Islamic Republic of Pakistan, West Pakistan |
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| Category of | panchayat, panchayet, punchayet | A village council in India or southern Pakistan |
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| Instance of | Asian country, Asian nation | Any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent |
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| Members | Pakistani | A native or inhabitant of Pakistan |
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| Part of | Asia | The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population |
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| Parts | Faisalabad, Lyallpur | city in northeast Pakistan |
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| Hindu Kush, Hindu Kush Mountains | A mountain range extending to the west of the Himalayas |
| Hyderabad | A city in southern Pakistan on the Indus River |
| Indus, Indus River | An Asian river that rises in Tibet and flows through northern India and then southwest through Kashmir and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea |
| Islamabad, capital of Pakistan | The capital of Pakistan in the north on a plateau |
| Karachi | The largest city in Pakistan |
| Kashmir, Cashmere, Jammu and Kashmir | An area in southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed between Pakistan and India |
| Khyber Pass | A mountain pass of great strategic and commercial value in the Hindu Kush on the border between northern Pakistan and western Afghanistan |
| Lahore | city in northeast Pakistan |
| Pamir Mountains, the Pamirs | A mountain range in central Asia that is centered in Tajikistan but extends into Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan and Pakistan and western China |
| Peshawar | city in northern Pakistan at the eastern end of the Khyber Pass |
| Punjab | A historical region on northwestern India and northern Pakistan |
| Rawalpindi | An ancient city in northeastern Pakistan |
| Sind | A region of southeastern Pakistan |
| Thar Desert, Great Indian Desert | A desert to the east of the Indus River in northwestern India and southeastern Pakistan |
| Tirich Mir | A mountain in the Hindu Kush in Pakistan (25,230 feet high) |
| Region of | Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence, ISI | The Pakistan intelligence agency |
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| Harkat-ul-Mujahidin, HUM, Harkat ul-Ansar, HUA, Harkat ul-Mujahedeen, Al Faran, Movement of Holy Warriors | An Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s |
| Jaish-i-Mohammed, Jaish-e-Muhammad, JEM, Army of Muhammad | A terrorist organization founded in 2000 |
| Jamaat ul-Fuqra, Fuqra, Tanzimul Fuqra | An Islamic terrorist group organized in the 1980s |
| Lashkar-e-Jhangvi | A Sunni Muslim extremist group in Pakistan that collaborates with al-Qaeda |
| Lashkar-e-Omar, Al Qanoon | A terrorist organization formed in Pakistan in 2002 as a coalition of extremist Islamic militant groups including Lashkar-e-Taiba and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Muhammad and elements of al-Qaeda |
| Lashkar-e-Taiba, Lashkar-e-Toiba, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, LET, Army of the Pure, Army of the Righteous | A brutal terrorist group active / active in Kashmir |
| Markaz-ud-Dawa-wal-Irshad, MDI | A Sunni organization formed in 1989 and based in Pakistan |
| Sipah-e-Sahaba | A vicious sectarian organization in Pakistan that persecutes Shiite Muslims and collaborates with al-Qaeda to attack foreigners and to disrupt the government of Pakistan |
| Umma Tameer-e-Nau, UTN | A nongovernmental organization of Pakistani scientists that has been a supporter of terrorism |
| al-Qaeda, Qaeda, al-Qa'ida, al-Qaida, al Qaeda, al Qaida, Base | A terrorist network intensely opposed to the United States that dispenses money and logistical support / support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist groups |
| al-Rashid Trust | A terrorist group organized in 1996 after the Taliban took over Afghanistan and part of Osama bin Laden's international system |
| madrasa, madrasah | Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan |
| Spanish | Pakistan, Pakistán, Paquistán, República Islámica del Pakistán |
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| Catalan | Pakistan, República Islàmica del Pakistan |
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| Adjectives | Pakistani | of or relating to Pakistan or its people or language |
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