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Robert Fisk: Journalism and the words of power
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Magda Hassan Wrote:Yes Helen, Pakistan is an acronym. I'm not a 100% sure now about what each letter stands for by I heard it from Benazir Bhutto.

Magda, I found it at ~13:14 in the file

http://www.archive.org/download/OTRR_Pac...ic__C_.mp3

Quote:interlocutor, trails off: "...You see the Pan-Islamic idea takes it for granted..."

narrator: The Pan-Islamic idea crystalized in the Pakistan Movement in 1933.

Ali: "Pakistan means 'land of the pure.'"

narrator: This was Chaudhary Rahmat Ali, a leading Moslem.

Ali: "Pakistan means 'the pure in religion.' We have used the name Pakistan because it is made up of the first letters of the regions of what we wish someday to be our state: Punjab, Afghanistan, Kashmir and Sindh."

narrator: These regions are in India's northwest. But they also include the Moslem regions of the northeast, Begnal and Assam.

Ali: "For Pakistan is more than a geographical state. We think of it as including all Moslems, wherever they are."

scary music

wikipedia agrees Chaudhary Rahmat Ali is credited with inventing the name Pakistan.
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Robert Fisk: Journalism and the words of power - by Helen Reyes - 30-05-2010, 02:14 PM

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