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Pakistan
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The Swat River valley in the North-West Frontier Province
Courtesy Sheila Ross
Figure 5. Topography and Drainage
Located in the northwestern part of the South Asian
subcontinent, Pakistan became a state as a result of the
partition of British India on August 14, 1947. Pakistan
annexed
Azad (Free) Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of
1947-48.
Initially, Pakistan also included the northeastern sector
of the
subcontinent, where Muslims are also in the majority. The
East
Wing and West Wing of Pakistan were, however, separated by
1,600
kilometers of hostile Indian territory. The country's East
Wing,
or East Pakistan, became the independent state of
Bangladesh in
December 1971
(see Yahya Khan and Bangladesh
, ch. 1).
Data as of April 1994
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