The Islamic Republic of Pakistan

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Pakistan, also known officially as “The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.” The government in Pakistan is a nominal democracy by military leader Pervez Musharraf. In the south and north it can be cold and dry during December to February, but in the south June to September is monsoon season with high winds and intense rain. Pakistan has a high conflict with India, about the Kashmir. As both wanting it for independence, from 1959 to now there has been wars here and there for Kashmir.
The type of government in Pakistan is the Islamic Republic, which is a UN Member. The Islamic Republic’s current leader is Chief Executive Asif Ali Zardari (On the left), which has been long standing for 5 years. If anything happens to the Chief Executive then the Second Chief Executive would take over, who is Nawaz Sharif (On the right). With Nawaz Sharif standing as the Prime Minister in Pakistan, he will then take over at the Chief Executive. Their Legislature has 442 seats for their size, and their last elections were in 2008. Unlike for countries all over, all world government’s legislative size is 131 seats.

Pakistan has geographic features, like every other place out there. Pakistan has Northern Highlands, the Indus River Plains, and the Balochistan Plateau. The Northern Highlands tower both Karakoram and Pamir mountain ranges, along with the world’s highest peaks K2, and Nanga Parbat; which has them similar by having huge peaks. The Indus River Plains is developing patches of plains, which are the Punjab and Sind that lie along the east. Using the Indus River and their tributaries, they flow through Pakistan from Kashmir to the Arabian Sea. The Balochistan Plateau lays on to the west, while the desert across is esta...

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of the western sector. In the Kashmir region both India and Pakistan had claimed it. Which lead to war in 1949, 1966, 1971, 1999, and is still battling over it today. Now we know this country as Pakistan, but before time in 2500-1700 BC Pakistan was called the Indus Valley civilization. Islam is one of the main religions that took over in 711 in Pakistan. Once, Pakistan was joined with Mogul Empire in 1526. . Kashmir has always made Pakistan and India go into war with each other to fight for independence from the late 1950’s to now; which is both an internal and external conflict. The government has been continuing on with the wars about the conflict of Kashmir between Pakistan and India.

Works Cited

http://businessweek.com/articles/2012-04-05/the-secret-strength-of-pakistans-economy
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ideology?s=t

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