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| 2005/12/6-7 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/India, Politics/Foreign/Asia/Others] UID:40878 Activity:low |
12/6 I read that the PAKI in Pakistan stands for: Pashtun, Afgan,
Kashmiris and Iranians. Is that true?
\_ Yes, because all acronyms around the world are from English
transliterations, so as to make it easy for the U.S. media market.
\- no
\_ Short for Pakistani. Don't call an Indian a Paki unless you
want to insult them.
\_ I thought "Paki" was insulting for Pakistanis as well.
\- i assume the quetion was about "where does the name
"pakistan" come from, not about the usage of the
epithet "paki". some people say "wog" stands for
western oriential gentleman but that is probably not
true and it is just a nasty term that ex post had
various faux meanings attached to it. punjab on the
other hand certainly is from "5+waters". "paki"
i think is urdu for pure or sacred or something like that.
i dont know the origin. but it certainly isnt like say
"benelux" etc. anybody claiming "kashmir is an essential
part of pakistan and is the k in the name" is either confused
or bullshitting. the P if anything would be for punjab which
is much more important than pashtoon. and sind is left out.
YMWTS: http://home.lbl.gov:8080/~psb/Humor/Peccavi.txt
i note in passing, the indian national anthem does have a
sanskritized list of parts of india.
\_ easy to assess the veracity of the claims made in this web site:
http://geography.about.com/library/misc/blpakname.htm |
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| home.lbl.gov:8080/~psb/Humor/Peccavi.txt It is a common idea that the most laconic military dispatch was that sent by Caesar to the Horse Guards at Rome containing the three remarkable words 'Veni, vidi, vici' (I came, I saw, I conquered) and perhaps until our own day, no like instance of brevity has been found. The dispatch of Sir Charles Napier after the capture of Sind to Lord Ellenborough, both for brevity and truth, is, however, far beyond it. The dispatch consisted of one emphatic word: 'Peccavi'--I have Sind (sinned). |
| geography.about.com/library/misc/blpakname.htm Pakistan has a fascinating history - it is es sentially an acronym! Prior to 1947, the country now known as Pakistan was a British colony. In 1947 the United Kingdom granted independence to the region under a new name, Pakistan. The name had been developed by a group of students at Ca mbridge University who issued a pamphlet in 1933 called Now or Never. It means the land of the Paks, the spiritually pure and clean." Although the suffix "stan" means country in Hindi and Persian, the studen ts were able to fit the names of homelands to make an appropriate countr y name. |