Pakistan is a federal parliamentary republic consisting of four provinces and four federal territories. It has many ethnicities and many languages that people speak in this country. A regional and middle power, Pakistan has the seventh largest standing armed force in the world and is a nuclear power as well as a declared nuclear-weapons state. They are the only nation in the Muslim world and the second Country in South Asia to have that status. It has a semi-industrialized economy with a well-integrated agriculture sector; its economy is the 26th largest in the world in terms of purchasing power and is one of the largest growing economies in the world. The goal of this paper is to give a better understanding of Pakistan’s demographic …show more content…
The border known as the Line of Control divides the region. The climate varies from tropical to temperate, with dry desert like conditions in the southern coastal areas. There are four distinct seasons with December through May being very dry. From December through February is a cool winter; from March through May is a hot spring. The summer rainy season, or southwest monsoon period, is from June through September; and October and November known as the retreating monsoon period. Rainfall varies greatly from year to year, and patterns of alternating floods and droughts are common. The Indus River and its tributaries can flood during the rainy season, except in the highlands. Earthquakes are common in Pakistan year round. The climate is usually hot about 100-120°F with winter temperatures only getting down to about 60°F. The Population of Pakistan is about 196,174,380 with a growth rate of 1.49 percent. About 14 million people live in its largest city Karachi with the second largest city only having about 5 million people. Pakistan has four major ethnic groups: the Punjabi, the Sindhi, the Baluchi, and the Pashtuns (also known as Pakhtuns). The Punjabi is the largest, making up about half of the population. Pakistan is also home to immigrants from India and their descendants called Muhajir and a large population of Afghan refugees, they mostly live in camps by the border. There are many languages spoken in
Pakistan with a population of 182,143,000 in 2013, it is one of the most populated countries in the world, but it is also one of the least developed (poverty in Pakistan) (WHO reference). Poverty is a prevalent issue through out Pakistan: “about one quarter of the population lives below poverty line” (Poverty in paki). Pakistani’s living in poverty being less common in the urban areas, and more common in the rural areas with about half of the rural population still under the category of absolute poverty (Poverty in paki). Poverty in Pakistan and throughout the world impacts the population’s ability to live healthy lifestyles. Without the means to acquire adequate nutrition, health care, and services, these people are unable to meet their individual health needs. Due to the link with poverty and health, it has remained priority in almost all national plans of Pakistan (Pakistan poverty).
Large busy markets, snake charmers, carpet vendors, and veiled women all invoke ideas of West Africa, the Middle East, and West Asia, but all these ideas come from Oriental fantasies from the nineteenth century. Edward Said the author of Orientalism said that “Orientalism was ultimately a political vision of reality whose structure promoted the difference between the familiar (Europe, West, "us") and the strange (the Orient, the East, "them").” The nineteenth century was a period of imperialism and tourism that led many western artists to visit West Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Orientalist paintings depicted two major effects, many artists often portrayed something “exotic,” which was racialized, feminized, and from a sexualized culture from a faraway land. Another effect that artists mainly like Jean-Léon Gérôme often showed was an authentic glimpse of a location and its inhabitants. Nochlin mentioned that many of Gérôme’s paintings worked to persuade their audiences by carefully representing a "preexisting Oriental reality.”
1. Gen. In the world Pakistan is a county that is facing one of the most critical conditions of terrorism. Pakistan is on an urge of war against the terrorism since more than 15 years that has been killed thousands of innocent citizens and several hundred of soldiers and law and enforcement agencies' personnel during fighting against terrorism. This irritation has not only affected the peoples of Pakistan, but it has been also very bad effects upon the economy of Pakistan. These things have made the economic situation of the state unsteady and unsecured.
Modern day Pakistan’s land has traditionally been Muslim for many years. In the early nineteenth century it was ruled by Britain and considered part of the British Indian Empire. In 1947, a partition was granted from the British, and Pakistan and India were created as their own countries. As the previous British Empire divided,
In the mountains and a few of the valleys bordering Pakistan, a fringe effect of the Indian monsoon, coming usually from the southeast, brings moist maritime tropical air in summer. Afghanistan has clearly defined seasons; summers are hot and winters can be bitterly cold. Summer temperatures as high as 49 °C have been recorded in the northern valleys. Midwinter temperatures as low as -9 °C are common around the 2000-m (6600-ft) level in the Hindu Kush. The climate in the highlands varies with elevation. The coolest temperatures usually occur on the heights of the
Afghanistan is in Stage 2 due to the rise in population caused by a decline in the Crude Death Rate (14) while the Crude Birth Rate (38) remains high. CDR declines as new health care systems arrive, and CBR still remains high because most families are still subsistence farmers (and deeply involved in cultural tradition). The population pyramid is expansive and has straight sides. The pyramid shows a slightly longer life expectancy and more people living into middle age. The change in the age structure of the population leads us to conclude that Afghanistan is in Stage 2 of the demographic transition.
October to April forms the coolest season. The temperatures vary from 70s to the mid-80s F and humidity is low. From May to September forms the hottest season. As the inland desert is blown by the hot Khamsin wind, temperatures increases. Temperatures vary from mid-80s F to a high 110s F. There is limited annual average amount of precipitation with the northern and mountainous part of the country receiving 380 mm and the coastal region receiving 130 mm annually. The duration between January and March forms the rainy season with the most of the precipitation falling in quick short burst. Periodic flash floods that devastates areas and the population living near the sea level results due to this erratic rainfall. Agricultural produce and domestic animals are as well swept by these heavy
The portrayal of women in the Middle East, specifically in Pakistan, women face discrimination on a regular basis and struggle to obtain equal rights in comparison to men in Pakistan. Some of the reasons women are oppressed in Pakistan because of the dominance and control men have over women. Since the government doesn’t utilize the opportunity to protect women and uses religious defenses as an excuse to treat women poorly, women continue to be treated like second class citizens. Oppression of Women in Pakistan began after independence in 1947 and continues to negatively impact women today. Women face inequality in being protected by the government, unequal education, and political representation.
All have extensive and developing populations. Between 1980 and 2008, population development was most noteworthy in Pakistan at 110.8%, with the least being in South Korea, with 28.4% period development;
A population estimated over 196 million in 310,403 square miles. There are many spoken regional languages such as Punjabi, Pashto, Sindhi, Saraiki, Balochi, Kashmiri, Brahui, Dogri, Hindko, Shina, Balti, Khowar, Burushaski, Yidgha, Dameli, Kalasha, Gawar-Bati, and Domaaki but only Urdu is an official Pakistan language. This official language is spoken in all parts of Pakistan. English is generally used by most of the government ministries and the Pakistani elite instead of Urdu. Many of its neighbors have influenced cultures of the Pakistani ethnic groups and origins dated back to Indus Valley Civilization around 5500 years ago. Their origins differences among the ethnic groups in a cultural aspect are in dress, food, and religion.
In recent history, South Asia has been a center for political and religious turmoil. South Asia’s identity is ever changing and explicitly diverse depending upon various factors, such as geographic location and political and religion ideologies. Inherently, the history of Partition and the rise of the Taliban can be attributed to the subcontinent’s diversity. The diverseness of South Asia has brought about a sense of nationalism for various ethnographic groups, which has transformed the subcontinent both positively and negatively. When exploring India/Pakistan Partition and the rise of the Taliban, the consequences has primarily been negative, especially for women who unequivocally suffered most during these times of political and cultural chaos. By analyzing the causes and consequences of Partition and rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan, South Asia’s destructive path is revealed.
Karachi is the capital of the province of Sindh, as well as the largest and most populous metropolitan city of Pakistan. Pakistan consists of a population of roughly 199,085,847 million as of October 15, 2015, according to the United States Census Bureau. Over the past few years there has also been an increase in its population, it seems to be growing at a rate of 1.49% as of 2014. The population of Karachi is not exact, however according to the world population review, there was an estimated population of 23.7 million in 2014, the population size as of this year is yet to be determined.
Pakistan, where 22.3% of the total population (Indexmundi.com, 2013) resides at the bottom of the pyramid, BOP consumers play an important role in the country’s economy. John May (2013) states that population growth is now being boosted by young adults. In Pakistan, the age group of 15 to 29 year olds termed as the ‘youth bulge’ represent 46.4% of the Pakistani population. This is seen as a growing concern since the youth bulge will require access to basic infrastructure such as education, health care and other basic needs and most importantly jobs. With growing political and economical instability in Pakistan, offering these needs may seem rather difficult.
It depends on when you run into the average Pakistani male. Pakistan is "I-don 't-care" Islamic when he is drooling over Katrina Kaif 's "assets" at the movies. Conversely, Pakistan is full-on Islamic when the same gent is at Friday prayers, nodding solemnly in agreement with the imam spewing religious hate speech.
The partition novel is official histories of Pakistan sub scribe to the two nation theory and argues that the Pakistan nation was the inevitable crystallization of the desire of the muslims of the Indian subcontinent to remain a distinctive community, separate from the Hindu population around them. Indian was partitioned on a two nation theory and despite the best efforts of Mahatma Gandhi and others of his ilk, It could not be averted. Now it is time to assess whether India has lived up to the vision of Mahatma Gandhi and Pakistan of mohd Ali Jinnah.