Redigerer Pakistan (avsnitt)

==Etymologi==
Navnet Pakistan ble konstruert i 1933 som ''Pakstan'' av Choudhry Rahmat Ali.<ref name="nowornever">{{Cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/txt_rahmatali_1933.html|title=Now or never: Are we to live or perish for ever?|author=Choudhary Rahmat Ali|publisher=Columbia University|date=28. januar 1933|accessdate=6. oktober 2014}}</ref> Det er et [[akronym]] for de fem nordlige regionene av [[Britisk India|britisk Sør-Asia]], [[Punjab|'''P'''unjab]], [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa|'''A'''fghania]], [[Kashmir|'''K'''ashmir]], [[Sind (Pakistan)|'''S'''ind]] og [[Balutsjistan (Pakistan)|Balutsjis'''tan''']].<ref name="Now or Never">{{Cite journal|author=Choudhary Rahmat Ali|title=Now or Never. Are we to live or perish forever?|date=28. januar 1933|url=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Now_or_Never;_Are_We_to_Live_or_Perish_Forever%3F}}</ref><ref name="Ikram1995">{{Cite book|author=S.M. Ikram|title=Indian Muslims and partition of India|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=7q9EubOYZmwC&pg=PA177|accessdate=6. oktober 2014|date=1. januar 1995|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|isbn=978-81-7156-374-6|pages=177–}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chaudhryrahmatali.com/now%20or%20never/index.htm |title=Rahmat Ali ::Now or Never |publisher=The Pakistan National Movement |accessdate=6. oktober 2014 |author=Rahmat Ali |page=2 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110419012150/http://www.chaudhryrahmatali.com/now%20or%20never/index.htm |archivedate=2011-04-19 |tittel=Arkivert kopi |besøksdato=2014-10-06 |arkivurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110419012150/http://www.chaudhryrahmatali.com/now%20or%20never/index.htm |arkivdato=2011-04-19 |url-status=død}} {{Kilde www |url=http://www.chaudhryrahmatali.com/now%20or%20never/index.htm |tittel=Arkivert kopi |besøksdato=2014-10-06 |arkiv-dato=2011-04-19 |arkiv-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110419012150/http://www.chaudhryrahmatali.com/now%20or%20never/index.htm |url-status=unfit }}</ref> Så ble '''i'''-en lagt til for å lette uttale og for å forme et meningsfullt språklig ord.<ref name="davison">{{Cite journal|author=Roderic H. Davidson |title=Where is the Middle East? |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_foreign-affairs_1960-07_38_4/page/665 |journal=Foreign Affairs |volume=38 |pages=665–675 |year=1960 |doi=10.2307/20029452 |issue=4}}</ref>

En annen etymologi er at navnet Pakistan betyr «de renes land» på urdu, fra persisk پاک (transkriberes pak).<ref>{{Kilde www|url=https://glosbe.com/ku/en/pak|tittel=pak i engelsk|besøksdato=2022-07-16|verk=glosbe.com|forlag=Kurdisk-Engelsk Ordbok {{!}} Glosbe}}</ref><ref>{{Kilde bok|url=https://books.google.no/books?id=YJbiDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA490&dq=pakistan+clean+word&hl=no&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiYrP2u-cDwAhVrxIsKHRU5DP0Q6AEwBHoECAUQAg#v=onepage&q=pakistan%20clean%20word&f=false|tittel=Intelligent Technologies and Applications: Second International Conference, INTAP 2019, Bahawalpur, Pakistan, November 6–8, 2019, Revised Selected Papers|etternavn=Bajwa|fornavn=Imran Sarwar|etternavn2=Sibalija|fornavn2=Tatjana|etternavn3=Jawawi|fornavn3=Dayang Norhayati Abang|dato=2020-05-08|utgiver=Springer Nature|isbn=978-981-15-5232-8|språk=en}}</ref><ref>{{Kilde bok|url=https://books.google.no/books?id=eBEHEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA7&dq=%22it+originates+from+%E2%80%9CPak%E2%80%9D,+an+Urdu+word+with+a+Persian+origin+which+means%22&hl=no&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjj5erj-MDwAhVy-yoKHbmDDXMQ6AEwAHoECAAQAg#v=onepage&q=%22it%20originates%20from%20%E2%80%9CPak%E2%80%9D,%20an%20Urdu%20word%20with%20a%20Persian%20origin%20which%20means%22&f=false|tittel=United States and Pakistan in the 21st Century: Geostrategy and Geopolitics in South Asia|etternavn=Raza|fornavn=Syed Tahseen|dato=2020-11-11|utgiver=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-000-21813-8|språk=en}}</ref><ref>{{Kilde bok|url=https://books.google.no/books?id=AMYZAQAAIAAJ&q=pakistan+meaning+clean&dq=pakistan+meaning+clean&hl=no&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjY8tGD-cDwAhWMtYsKHaHDAGM4FBDoATABegQIBBAC|tittel=Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania: M to Z|etternavn=West|fornavn=Barbara A.|dato=2009|utgiver=Facts On File|isbn=978-0-8160-7109-8|språk=en}}</ref>