pakistan

Noun
  1. A Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient south Asian civilization in the Indus River valley;
    Formerly part of India;
    Achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947 (synset 108998272)
    associated with: panchayat, panchayet, punchayet - a village council in India or southern Pakistan
    domain member region:
    • al qaeda, al qaida, al-qa'ida, al-qaeda, al-qaida, base, qaeda - a terrorist network intensely opposed to the United States that dispenses money and logistical support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist groups; has cells in more than 50 countries
    • al-rashid trust - a terrorist group organized in 1996 after the Taliban took over Afghanistan and part of Osama bin Laden's international system; provides financial support for the Taliban and al-Qaeda and Jaish-i-Mohammed and assists Muslim militants around the world; established a network of madrasas and mosques in Afghanistan
    • al faran, harkat ul-ansar, harkat ul-mujahedeen, harkat-ul-mujahidin, hua, hum, movement of holy warriors - an Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s; now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir's accession by Pakistan
    • army of muhammad, jaish-e-muhammad, jaish-i-mohammed, jem - a terrorist organization founded in 2000; a militant Islamic group active in Kashmir and closely aligned with al-Rashid Trust; seeks to secure release of imprisoned fellow militants by kidnappings
    • fuqra, jamaat ul-fuqra, tanzimul fuqra - an Islamic terrorist group organized in the 1980s; seeks to purify Islam through violence; the cells in North America and the Caribbean insulate themselves from Western culture and will even attack other Muslims who they regard as heretics
    • lashkar-e-jhangvi - a Sunni Muslim extremist group in Pakistan that collaborates with al-Qaeda; the armed wing of Sipah-e-Sahaba
    • al qanoon, lashkar-e-omar - a terrorist organization formed in Pakistan in 2002 as a coalition of extremist Islamic militant groups including Lashkar-e-Taiba and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Muhammad and elements of al-Qaeda
    • army of the pure, army of the righteous, lashkar-e-taiba, lashkar-e-tayyiba, lashkar-e-toiba, let - a brutal terrorist group active in Kashmir; fights against India with the goal of restoring Islamic rule of India
    • sipah-e-sahaba - a vicious sectarian organization in Pakistan that persecutes Shiite Muslims and collaborates with al-Qaeda to attack foreigners and to disrupt the government of Pakistan
    • markaz-ud-dawa-wal-irshad, mdi - a Sunni organization formed in 1989 and based in Pakistan; opposes missionary groups from the United States; has Lashkar-e-Tayyiba as its armed wing
    • umma tameer-e-nau, utn - a nongovernmental organization of Pakistani scientists that has been a supporter of terrorism; has provided information about chemical and biological and nuclear warfare to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda and the Taliban
    • madrasa, madrasah - Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan
    • directorate for inter-services intelligence, inter-services intelligence, isi - the Pakistan intelligence agency; a powerful and almost autonomous political and military force; has procured nuclear technology and delivery capabilities; has had strong ties with the Taliban and other militant Islamic groups
    is an instance of: asian country, asian nation - any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent
    member holonym: pakistani - a native or inhabitant of Pakistan
    has:
    • punjab - a historical region on northwestern India and northern Pakistan
    • cashmere, jammu and kashmir, kashmir - an area in southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed between Pakistan and India
    • faisalabad, lyallpur - city in northeast Pakistan
    • hyderabad - a city in southern Pakistan on the Indus River
    • capital of pakistan, islamabad - the capital of Pakistan in the north on a plateau; the site was chosen in 1959
    • karachi - the largest city in Pakistan; located in southeastern Pakistan; an industrial center and seaport on the Arabian Sea; former capital of Pakistan
    • lahore - city in northeast Pakistan
    • peshawar - city in northern Pakistan at the eastern end of the Khyber Pass
    • rawalpindi - an ancient city in northeastern Pakistan; served as capital of Pakistan while Islamabad was being built
    • sind - a region of southeastern Pakistan
    • great indian desert, thar desert - a desert to the east of the Indus River in northwestern India and southeastern Pakistan
    • hindu kush, hindu kush mountains - a mountain range extending to the west of the Himalayas
    • indus, indus river - an Asian river that rises in Tibet and flows through northern India and then southwest through Kashmir and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea
    • khyber pass - a mountain pass of great strategic and commercial value in the Hindu Kush on the border between northern Pakistan and western Afghanistan; a route by which invaders entered India
    • pamir mountains, the pamirs - a mountain range in central Asia that is centered in Tajikistan but extends into Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan and Pakistan and western China
    • tirich mir - a mountain in the Hindu Kush in Pakistan (25,230 feet high)
    is a part of: asia - the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
    same as: islamic republic of pakistan, west pakistan

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