The letter i was incorporated to ease pronunciation and forms the linguistically correct and meaningful name. The name is actually an acronym that stands for the "thirty million Muslim brethren who lived in Pakistan-by which we mean the Five Northern units of India viz: Punjab, ( Afghan Province), Kashmir, Sind, and Baluchis tan". by using the suffix - istan from Balochistan preceded by the first letters of Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir and Sindh. Pakistan is a bit different its name was coined on 28 January 1933 as Pakstan by Choudhary Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan Movement activist, who published it in his paper Now or Never. The names are compounds of - stan and the name of the peoples living there. Iranian peoples have been the main inhabitants of the various land regions of the Ancient Persian Empires now owned by the states for over a thousand years. This - stan is formed from the Iranian root *STA "to stand, stay," and means "place (where one stays), home, country". Many South-central Asian states and regions end with the element - stan, such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Balochistan, Kurdistan, and Turkistan.
The name Pakistan ( English pronunciation: / ˈ p æ k ɪ s t æ n/ ( listen) or / p ɑː k i ˈ s t ɑː n/ ( listen) Urdu: پاکستان ) means Land of (the) Spiritually Pure in both Urdu and Persian languages.
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