The word "Pakistan" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the country located in South Asia.
Example: "Pakistan is known for its rich cultural heritage and diverse landscapes."
Alternatives: "The Islamic Republic of Pakistan" or "The country of Pakistan."
American Special Operations forces could conduct much of the training, as they have with counterterrorism forces in Pakistan and Yemen, American officials said.
"She met the prime minister of Pakistan, and performed in Islamabad to thousands of people," it says.
They were arrested on their way to Manchester airport to fly to Pakistan in March 2007.
Has the ISC now been given all the new evidence, including about links between the plotters here and camps in Pakistan?
Highlighting its extreme sensitivity, the Afghan government did not formally announce the intelligence-sharing deal and denied that Pakistan will train and equip Afghan officers.
Merah was thus not only part of an old style of terrorism – recruits making their way to the badlands of Pakistan to get trained and then returning to carry out attacks – but was also much less effective than predecessors such as those responsible for the 7/7 attacks in London.
The Hazara are Shia Muslims and are frequently targeted by extremists from among the Sunni majority in Pakistan.
There are about 500,000 Hazara in Pakistan and about 3 million in Afghanistan.
In reply to a message sent in September 2011 by adviser Huma Abedin to Clinton's personal email account, which contained an AP story about a drone strike in Pakistan, Clinton mistakenly replied with questions that appear to be about decorations.
There was a nod to civilian life in Pakistan with a series of floats, including one bearing a pair of roaring electronic dinosaurs and others for each of country's different regions – the mountainous north was represented by men dressed as mountaineers pretending to scale a model of K2.
The earthquake occurred a few minutes before noon and rumbled across the densely populated Kathmandu Valley, rippled through the capital and spread north towards the Himalayas and Tibet, and west towards the historic city of Lahore in Pakistan.
