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Etymology

The name Pakistan literally means "Land of (the) Pure" in Urdu and Persian. It was coined in 1933 as Pakstan by Choudhary Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan Movement activist, who published it in his pamphlet Now or Never,^[10] using it as an acronym ("thirty million Muslim brethren who live in PAKSTAN") referring to the names of the five northern regions of the Indian subcontinent:Punjab, North-West Frontier Province (Afghan Province), Kashmir, Sind, and Baluchistan".^[11][12][13] The letter i was incorporated to ease pronunciation and form the linguistically correct name.^[14]