Pakistan

in a sentence

Rulers of Eurasia from the Netherlands to Pakistan?  (source) Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, 1977

One day last summer, my friend Rahim Khan called from Pakistan.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

For the next several months—from the summer of 2005 to the spring of 2006—I was deployed in the town of Khost, on the border of Afghanista'n and Pakistan.  (source) Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore, 2010

A missing Green Beret soldier had been rescued in the mountains of Pakistan.†  (source) Carl Hiassen, Hoot, 2002

It was the Pakistani table, with a display sponsored by the Economics Club, detailing how the market for maunds (a Pakistani unit of measurement) of rice was falling.†  (source) Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries, 2000

Two Pakistanis and one Spaniard were wounded.†  (source) Howard E. Wasdin & Stephen Templin, I Am a Seal Team Six Warrior, 2012

I had to memorize that we shared borders with Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and the USSR.†  (source) Firoozeh Dumas, Funny in Farsi, 2003

When it gets down to it-talking trade balances here-once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here-once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel-once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity-y'know what?†  (source) Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992

I think they're Pakistanis.†  (source) Don DeLillo, White Noise, 1985

A video denigrating Mohammed had appeared on an Iranian web service and had quickly spread, sparking rioting in Pakistan and Bangladesh.†  (source) Matthew Mather, Cyberstorm, 2013

The information on the cart was from a variety of sources, but to Ryan the most significant were tactical radio intercepts from listening posts on the Pakistani border, and, he gathered, from inside Afghanistan itself.†  (source) Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October, 1984

The reporter speaks to several drivers at the company garages, and though all of them are concerned and scared there's nobody who can speak for the drivers as a group, who even wants to, they're too different from one another, they're recently arrived Latvians and Jamaicans, Pakistanis, Hmong.†  (source) Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker, 1995

he might as well have been grilling me about the location of missile sites in Pakistan—she sent me out of the room and then in a controlled monotone put a stop to it ("Well I mean, obviously the boy doesn't know where he is, the mother didn't know either ...yes, I know you'd like to find him but clearly the man doesn't want to be found, he's taken measures not to be found ...he wasn't paying child support, he left a lot of debts, he more or less flew town without a word so frankly I'm not quite sure what you mean to accomplish by contacting this stellar parent and fine citizen and ...yes, yes, all well and good, but if the man's creditors can't run him down and your agency can't either then†  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013