kolej-i-drogi: Pakistan

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Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second-largest Muslim population in the world as of 2023. Islamabad is the nation's capital, while Karachi is its largest city and financial centre. Pakistan is the 33rd-largest country by area. Bounded by the Arabian Sea on the south, the Gulf of Oman on the southwest, and the Sir Creek on the southeast, it shares land borders with India to the east; Afghanistan to the west; Iran to the southwest; and China to the northeast. It shares a maritime border with Oman in the Gulf of Oman, and is separated from Tajikistan in…

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Overseas Pakistanis (Urdu: بیرون ملک پاکستانی نژاد), or the Pakistani diaspora, refer to Pakistanis who live outside of Pakistan. These include citizens who have migrated to another country as well as people born abroad of Pakistani descent. They form a part of the broader South Asian diaspora, commonly referred to as the Desi diaspora. According to a December 2017 estimate by the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development, approximately 8.8 million Pakistanis live abroad. Data released in 2023 by the Ministry of Emigration and Overseas Employment states that more than 10.80 million Pakistanis have moved abroad since 1990. The vast majority, over 4.7 million, reside in t…

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The world’s Muslim community is estimated to have reached a total of 2,006,931,770 this week, the Global Muslim Population website reported earlier this week. Rabat – The world’s Muslim community is estimated to have reached a total of 2,006,931,770 this week, the Global Muslim Population website reported earlier this week. The world’s population is expected to grow by 32% in the next decades. However, the Muslim population is projected to increase by 70%, from 1.8 billion in 2015 to nearly 3 billion in 2060.

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RISSC recorded Indonesia's Muslim population at 240.62 million in 2023. This represents 86.7% of the total national population of 277.53 million. According to the RISSC report titled "The Muslim 500: The World's 500 Most Influential Muslims 2024," Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population. According to a report by The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre (RISSC), titled *The Muslim 500: The World's 500 Most Influential Muslims 2024*, Indonesia has the largest Muslim population in the world.

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Jakarta, IO – Indonesia is no longer the country with the largest Muslim population in the world according to the World Population Review. This position is now occupied by Pakistan. Pakistan overtook Indonesia with its Muslim population of 240.8 million, accounting for 98.19 percent of its total population, per Detikcom, Wed (3/4). The size of Indonesia’s Muslim community now stands at 236 million, 84.35 percent of its total population.

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In the world’s largest Muslim population, most parents support sexual health education in schools

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Punjab is a province of Pakistan. With a population of over 127 million, it is the most populous Pakistani province and the second most populous subnational polity in the world. Located in the central-eastern region of the country, it has the largest economy, contributing the most to national GDP in Pakistan. Lahore is the capital and largest city of the province. Other major cities include Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala and Multan. It is bordered by the Pakistani provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the north-west, Balochistan to the south-west and Sindh to the south, as well as Islamabad Capital Territory to the north-west and Azad Kashmir to the north. It shares an international border…

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British Pakistanis or Pakistani Britons are Britons or residents of the United Kingdom with ancestral roots in Pakistan. This includes people born in the UK who are of Pakistani descent, Pakistani-born people who have migrated to the UK and those of Pakistani origin from overseas who migrated to the UK. The UK hosts the largest Pakistani community in Europe, with over 1.6 million people recorded in the 2021 Census. British Pakistanis are the second-largest ethnic minority group in the United Kingdom and the second-largest subgroup of British Asians. They also form one of the largest populations within the global Pakistani diaspora, comparable in size to the Pakistani community in the UAE. M…

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Pakistanis (Urdu: پاكِستانى قوم, romanized: Pākistānī Qaum, lit. 'Pakistani Nation') are the citizens and nationals of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Pakistan is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second-largest Muslim population as of 2023. A majority of around 97% of Pakistanis are Muslims. As much as 85-90% of the population follows Sunni Islam. The majority of Pakistanis natively speak languages belonging to the Indo-Iranic family (Indo-Aryan and Iranic subfamilies). Located in South Asia, the country is also the source of a significantly large diaspora, most of whom reside in the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, with an estimated…

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The World Muslim Population (Second Edition)

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The Muhajir people (also spelled Mohajir and Mahajir; Urdu: مہاجر) are a multi-origin ethnic group of Pakistan. They are the Muslim immigrants of various ethnic groups and regional origins, who migrated from various regions of India, mostly after the 1947 independence to settle in the newly independent state of Pakistan, and their descendants. Muhajirs come from various ethnic and regional backgrounds, with a significant portion of the community residing in Karachi and other major urban centers of Pakistan. The total population of Muhajrs worldwide is estimated to be around 15 million, and the overwhelming majority of this figure (14.7 million) is located in Pakistan, according to the 2017…