All 29 Uses of
Pakistan
in
A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Particularly now that the American president, Reagan, had started shipping the Mujahideen Stinger Missiles to down the Soviet helicopters, now that Muslims from all over the world were joining the cause: Egyptians, Pakistanis, even wealthy Saudis, who left their millions behind and came to Afghanistan to fight the jihad.
p. 113..1Pakistanis = people of the Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
- From time to time, Mammy showed her the old, crumpled newspaper clippings in it, and pamphlets that Ahmad had managed to collect from insurgent groups and resistance organizations headquartered in Pakistan.
p. 122..4Pakistan = a Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
- Here in Kabul, women taught at the university, ran schools, held office in the government-No, Babi meant the tribal areas, especially the Pashtun regions in the south or in the east near the Pakistani border, where women were rarely seen on the streets and only then in burqa and accompanied by men.
p. 135..9Pakistani = relating to the Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
- Pakistan first, I suppose.
p. 150..6Pakistan = a Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
- Pakistan first.
p. 181..1
- Babi said they would go to Pakistan first, to apply for visas.
p. 188..8
- Pakistan, where Tariq was!
p. 188..8
- And two in Pakistan, in Peshawar.
p. 205..1
- Before Abdul Sharif's visit, Laila had decided to leave for Pakistan.
p. 218..7
- And he's fighting Hekmatyar, of course, who has the support of the Pakistanis.
p. 230..4Pakistanis = people of the Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
- The second risky part of this trip would come when they actually arrived in Pakistan.
p. 260..3Pakistan = a Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
- Already burdened with nearly two million Afghan refugees, Pakistan had closed its borders to Afghans in January of that year.
p. 260..3
- But the border was porous-always had been-and Laila knew that thousands of Afghans were still crossing into Pakistan either with bribes or by proving humanitarian grounds-and there were always smugglers who could be hired.
p. 260..5
- They were a guerrilla force, he said, made up of young Pashtun men whose families had fled to Pakistan during the war against the Soviets.
p. 273..8
- Most of them had been raised-some even born-in refugee camps along the Pakistani border,
p. 273..9 *Pakistani = relating to the Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
- Most of them had been raised-some even born-in refugee camps along the Pakistani border, and in Pakistani madrasas, where they were schooled in Shari'a by mullahs.
p. 273..9
- Ever cared to visit the real Afghanistan, the south, the east, along the tribal border with Pakistan?
p. 279..5Pakistan = a Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
- They moved to Pakistan or Iran.
p. 293..8
- People smuggled pirated copies of the film from Pakistan-sometimes in their underwear.
p. 303..4
- Pakistani and Arab Islamists.
p. 307..9Pakistani = people of the Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
- "Pakistan," he said.
p. 333..0Pakistan = a Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
- "Less than a year," Tariq said-He befriended an older man in prison, he said, a fellow named Salim, a Pakistani, a former field hockey player who had been in and out of prison for years and who was serving ten years for stabbing an undercover policeman.
p. 339..1Pakistani = person of the Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
- Tariq spent seven years in the Pakistani prison.
p. 339..5Pakistani = relating to the Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
- If you want me to leave, if you want me to go back to Pakistan, say the word, Laila.
p. 343..3Pakistan = a Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
- Tariq has a place in Pakistan.
p. 357..3
- A fine, young Pakistani fellow.
p. 365..6Pakistani = person of the Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
- The coalition forces have driven the Taliban out of every major city, pushed them across the border to Pakistan and to the mountains in the south and east of Afghanistan.
p. 389..0Pakistan = a Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
- Laila tells him that she has been in Pakistan for the last year, that she is returning to Kabul.
p. 394..9
- In Pakistan, it was difficult sometimes to remember the details of Mariam's face.
p. 400..5
Definition:
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(Pakistan) a south Asian Muslim republic that is the fifth most populous countryeditor's notes: Pakistan borders India, Afghanistan, Iran, & China.
When Great Britain granted independence to British India, two countries were created based on religious identity. India was primarily Hindu and Pakistan was predominantly Muslim.
Millions of people moved in the months after the partitioning in order to live with their religious majority. Hundreds of thousands were killed.
Pakistan was divided by India with those living to the west separated by 1,000 miles of India from those living in the east. The two Pakistani areas were called West Pakistan and East Bengal which was later called East Pakistan. In 1971 East Pakistan won its independence from West Pakistan and changed its name to Bangladesh.