Etymology
The name
Pakistan means
Land of (the) Pure in
Urdu and
Persian. It was coined in 1933 as
Pakstan by
Choudhary Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan movement activist, who published it in his pamphlet
Now or Never.
[18] The name is an
acronym representing the "thirty million Muslim brethren who live in PAKSTAN—by which we mean the five Northern units of India viz:
Punjab,
North-West Frontier Province (Afghan Province),
Kashmir,
Sind, and
BaluchisTAN".
[19] The letter 'i' was later added to ease pronunciation.
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