Did You Know

The name Pakistan was derived from an idea first suggested in 1933 when a student, Chaudhuri Rahmat Ali, proposed that there should be a separate homeland which would be comprised of the Muslim-majority provinces in the north-west as well as the geographically contiguous princely state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Pakistan, which also means pure in Urdu, was so named because of the regions it was supposed to include:

Punjab
Afghanistan
Kashmir
Sind
Baluchistan