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Pakistan Is The Most Misunderstood Country

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A country has been ranked second in the list of most negatively rated countries in the world by a global poll for BBC World Service, which surveyed 24,090 people around the world in 2012. And that country is ‘Pakistan-Land of Pure’.
The area of Pakistan is 880,940 square km (340,133 square miles). It is divided into 4 provinces; Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan along with federally administered areas.
The country shares borders with Afghanistan to the northwest, China to the north, India to the south and east, and Iran to the west. The border with India is subject to dispute, with both nations claiming the mountain regions of Kashmir and Jammu.
Pakistan is the most misunderstood country in the world and the phenomenon of terrorism and religious extremism, arguably, is a leading factor in distorting its image on the global level. Pakistan as a front line state in the war on terror has suffered the most in men and material, has helped in dismantling the terrorist network of Osama bin Laden but regrettably our allies and western countries look suspiciously at our endeavors, doubt our commitment to the cause at hand and decidedly remain oblivious to our national and strategic interests in the region.

Pakistan is suffering from an acute image problem. No one disagrees not even I. Look at the reports of terrorism emanating from our soil, splashed all across the global media; Pakistani passport being reduced to a document that raises eyebrows at airports rather

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