8 Pakistan

state / nation

At independence Pakistan had a bounded national territory, a capital, a cultural core, and a population- but few centripetal forces to bind ___ and ___.

Lahore / Faisalabad / Multan

What are the three cities that anchor Punjab?

the India-Pakistan border / Muslim / India

What does Lahore lie close to? During the Mughal Period, Lahore was situated favorably to become a great ____ center (when Punjab was a main corridor into ___).

Baluchistan / 7 / barren / sheep / wool / Quetta / coal and oil / the Punjabis

What is the biggest of Pakistan's provinces? However only 13.5 million people, or barely __% of the population, live here. The terrain consists mostly of ___ mountains. ____ raising is the leading livelihood here, and ___ is the primary export. What is the provincial capital? What is possibly beneath the barren surface ( 2 things). Who do the residents of this province complain run their country?

Urda / English

What is the official language of Pakistan? What is the Lingua Franca of their elite?

187.7 million / the Islamic Republic of Pakistan / Indonesia

What is the population of Pakistan? What is Pakistan's official name? Among Muslim countries, only Southeast Asia's _____ is bigger.

Afghanistan / poppy / transition

What is the world's leading source of the illegal commerce of opium and hashish? Alongside this, Pakistan has many remote corners where ______ fields yield high returns, with well established trade routes. Pakistan displays the contradictory systems of a state in ______.

the Indus River / Sutlej

What river is Pakistan's gift? What is it's principle tributary?

Karachi / Islamabad

Who is Pakistan's biggest city (as well as it's economic and financial center)? What city became the capital after this city?

Sunni / Shi'ite / Shi'ite

____ extremists from Pakistan attack their ___ minority, leading to the ____ population desperate to retaliate, with growing anger.

Waziristan

al-Qaeda and Taliban groups maintain hideouts in the mountainous ____. Due to this, the army is unable to control this area.

Democracy

Pakistan's attempts at ____ fail time and time again, being overthrown by military coups.

Punjab / Muslim / Pakistan / India

Pakistan's core area is ____, the ____ heartland across which the post-Independence boundary between ____ and ____ was superimposed.

religious / Islamic

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is a highly conservative, deeply ___, militant province. Where _____ political parties and movements are proportionately stronger than in any other part of the country.

Muslim

Pakistan's innovations moved southeastward into the massive triangular peninsula. Here lies South Asia's _____ frontier.

cotton

Commercially in Sindh, _____ is super important for their textile factories in the cities and towns .

Islamic / Hindu

Desperate sub regions of Pakistan shared ____ faith and an aversion to ___ India. But little else connects them.

Pushtan / Khyber

During the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980's and then during the Taliban regime , several million ____ refugees streamed through the ____ and other passes- into refugee camps in this area.

Salman Taseer / Islamabad / body guards / rose petals / lawyers

Former governor of Punjab, ___ ___, who had returned to his legal profession, was shot dead on the street in _____. He had spoken out against his country's pernicious blasphemy laws- after having a Christian client convicted to death for blasphemy (swearing). His killer, one of this own ____ _____ was praised and showered with ____ ____ by other _____.

urban / coast

Karachi the largest ____ center of Pakistan,and lies on the _____.

Green Revolution / rice / manufacturing / Karachi

In Pakistan, there medieval and modern stand side by side. Way too many peoples with a nationalist-familial/tribal mentality (bad news for a country). Despite this there is progress, the ____ ____ and expanded irrigation has enabled Pakistan, to export some ____. Pakistan _____ industry has shown exponential growth. Where is Pakistan's steel mill near?

Punjabi / wheat

In Punjab, ___ is the language, and ___ farming is the mainstay (as with most areas past where the wet monsoons touch).

flood / wettest / swelled / tributaries / flooded / quarter

In the second half of 2010, Pakistan saw the worst ___ in the country's history. A result of the ___ monsoon in decades. The Indus River ___ beyond capacity, backing up many ___, and ____ fully a ___ of the country.

2 / poor / literacy / improving

Of Pakistan's population of 180 million, only __ million are registered tax payers. Pakistan's recent economic boom has not filtered to the ___; ___ rates are not rising; and health conditions are not _____ significantly .

theocratic / 80 / Sunni / 20 / Shi'ite

Pakistan has become one of the most ____ states. Almost ___ % are ____ Muslim, while the minority with approx ___% are ___ Muslim.

half / Indus / Sutlej / 100

Punjab is home to just over ____ of Pakistan's population. In the triangle formed by the ____ river and it's tributary ___, lives more than ____ million people.

Pushtun / 7 / North and South Waziristan

The British started the designation of a certain areas in Pakistan by assigning special status to the obstinate _____ villages (along the Afgan border). How many villages were there? Which two were among the largest? The Pakistani government's reach into these parts is limited, due to their semi-high degree of autonomy. This province's mountainous physical geography reflects its remoteness and the isolation of it's many people.

Tribal Areas / Pakhtunkhwa / Afgan

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa sub region of Pakistan has long been known as the ___ ___ intervening in the south. The name "______," is connotative to "Belong to the Pushtuns," who are the ____-associated tribes that inhabit the sub region.

Khyber / Peshawar / wheat

The ____ Pass, noted as a historic invader route, leads from Afghanistan directly into the provincial capitol of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, ____. The capitol lies in a broad, alluvium-filled, fertile valley where ___ and corn drape the countryside.

Sindhis / representation / autonomy / Pakistan / Sindh / Benazir Bhutto

The building of dams across the Indus river and it's major tributaries reminds ___ of their lack of _____ in their government. This leads to talk of greater ____. Nationalist, anti-____ rage swept ____ following the assassination of their president ( ___ ___) in 2007.

Karachi / Karachi / partition / Muhajirs / terrorist / port

The dominant presence of Sindh (because of course it can't be anything positive) is the crime-ridden, mega city of ____. ____ grew explosively during and after the ____, when refugee _____ from across the border with India streamed into this urban area (this somehow set off a crap ton of gang warfare and riots). This city became the hotbed of ___ activity, but still functions as a major ___ and holds a seat on Sindh's provincial government.

Sindh / divides

The lower Indus River is the key to life in ____, but the Punjab controls the waters upstream, which is an issue that ___ Pakistan.

British / Sindh / wheat / rice

The ribbon of fertile, irrigated ,alluvial (Alluvial meaning: a really epic type of soil containing Alluvium) along the lower Indus, where the ____ laid out irrigation systems, making ____ a Pakistani breadbasket for the growing of ___ and ___.

600 / Sunni / Shi'ite

the Baluchistan Liberation Army are signaling immense dissatisfaction with the the government. Since 2006 and estimated ___ Punjabi settlers in Baluchistan have been killed. Local ___ populations venting their frustration on the 'immigrant' ____ Muslims who originally hail from Central Asia.