Study Figure 1, a photograph of an area in northern Pakistan after a recent earthquake. Using Figure 1 only, comment on the evidence that suggests that an earthquake has recently taken place.…
After independence from the British in 1947, President Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s vision for Pakistan was very clear: he wanted peace, good governance, tolerance and a state able to adhere to a rule of law. Unfortunately, this vision was never transformed into reality; the nation created as a home for the British India’s Muslims six decades ago today represent one of the world most troubling states in crisis (Crisis Guide: Pakistan).Why can’t Pakistan flourish? What makes Pakistan such a weak state?…
The first fifty-two years of Pakistan’s existence have been unusually eventful, marked by many ups and downs for the country. It is difficult and sometimes impossible to predict what will be the end result of the policy chosen. Yet choices have to be made and decisions taken. Foreign policy is often considered…
Geo strategic means the importance of a country or a region as by virtue of its geographical location.Pakistan is a very fortune country in respect of its location.It came into being on August 14,1947.It has an area of 796096 square kilometers.Pakistan is a junction between South Asia,Wesat Asia and Central Asian Countris,a way from energy efficient countries to energy deficient countries.The world is facing energy crisis and terrorism.Pakistan is a route for tranportation,a front line state agaanst terrorism.That's why Stephen Cohn says:…
When Pakistan was formed in 1947, she needed both economic (due to initial problems) and military (Indian threat) assistance for its survival. In the early 1950’s the US had delineated a program known as Marshal Plan which aimed at the recovery of Europe and extending assistance to various Asian countries. After Partition, Liaqat Ali khan (1st PM) was invited by Soviets and Americans. He chooses sanity over inhumanity and visited US, thus strengthening PAK-US relations. India established relations with Soviets.…
Defination:The study of the relationship among politics and geography, demography, and economics, especially with respect to the foreign policy of a nation.…
How were external factors, namely, the Second World War and international interests, implicated in the beginning of Pakistan’s history?…
My thanks go to all the individuals who took time to answer my questions during interviews in the UK and Pakistan and to explain and demonstrate their mapping methodologies and outputs to me. I’m especially grateful to OPPRTI and ASB in Pakistan. This report would not have been possible without their professional and dedicated organisation of my itinerary in Karachi and in Faisalabad and Jaranwala and their openness to all my questions and comprehensive explanation of their work. I am also thankful to Roya Jodieri who wrote the Annex describing ASB’s approach to GIS mapping in Jaranwala in more detail.…
1947 was the year Pakistan was founded. Pakistan was built to fulfill the needs of the Muslim community by providing them equality, justice and freedom. However, soon enough it failed to fulfill the promises it had made to its society thus instability, restlessness and wretchedness reigned throughout the nation.…
flew to Beijing and invited China to build a naval base at Gwadar, a Pakistani port…
Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the Founder of Pakistan and its first Governor General, in a broadcast talk to the people of the USA in February 1948, outlined the following goals of Pakistan’s foreign policy:…
Pakistan had a unique geographical feature. It consisted of two distinct blocks of territory. East Pakistan was not only separated geographically from West Pakistan by one thousand miles, but the departing land was India - a hostile neighbour, who from the day one did not recognise Pakistan’s existence. Hindu leaders gave statements at the time of Pakistan’s creation that it was a temporary division and very soon Pakistan will come into Indian fold again. For them, to execute their nefarious designs, keeping both sides divided and hostile, was the cornerstone of their hostile policy. Jinnah smelled the conspiracy even in 1940s and he had demanded ‘a corridor across India to connect the separated limbs of the new state’. But Mountbatten did not agree.…
Pakistan is with America against the Taliban. The effect of this is that the terrorists of Taliban have also started attacking Pakistan. As a result of terrorism, Pakistan has got a bad image and most of the foreigners have stopped visiting or have left this country.…
nation. Pakistan has faced varying degrees of religious, ethnic, linguistic, and political problems that are often in conflict with our…
Pakistani nationalism had taken shape in the minds of the Muslims of the Sub Continent long before Pakistan actually came into existence. An ideology acquired territorial recognition to let the Islamic way of life…