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Pakistan
Index
This edition supersedes the second edition of
Pakistan:
A Country Study, published in 1983 under the
editorship of
Richard F. Nyrop. Like its predecessor, the present book
is an
attempt to treat in a compact and objective manner the
dominant
historical, social, economic, political, and national
security
aspects of contemporary Pakistan. Sources of information
included
scholarly books, journals, and monographs; official
reports and
documents of governments and international organizations;
foreign
and domestic newspapers and periodicals; and interviews
with
individuals with special competence in South Asian
affairs.
Relatively up-to-date economic data were available from
several
sources, but the sources were not always in agreement.
Most
demographic data should be viewed as well-informed
estimates.
Chapter bibliographies appear at the end of the book;
brief
comments on some of the more valuable sources for further
reading
appear at the conclusion of each chapter. Measurements are
given in
the metric system; a conversion table is provided to
assist readers
unfamiliar with the metric system (see
table 1, Appendix).
For the
convenience of the reader, a brief chronology of the major
eras and
events of South Asian and Pakistani history is included
(see Table A.
The transliteration of various words and phrases posed
a
problem. For many words of Arabic origin--such as Muslim,
Quran,
and zakat--the authors followed a modified version
of the
system adopted by the United States Board on Geographic
Names. In
numerous instances, however, the authors adhered to the
spelling
used by the government and people of Pakistan. There is
thus some
variance in spellings: for example, the Prophet Muhammad,
but
Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Agha Mohammad Ayub Khan. The
reader should
also note that the term Khan, which appears with
numerous
names (for example, Ayub Khan, Ghaffar Khan, and Yahya
Khan), is an
honorific and is almost never a surname.
The body of the text reflects information available as
of April
1994. Certain other portions of the text, however, have
been
updated. The Introduction discusses significant events
that have
occurred since the completion of research, and the Country
Profile
includes updated information as available.
Data as of April 1994
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