Pakistan

The name Pakistan means Land of (the) Pure in Urdu and Persian. It was coined in 1933 as Pakistan by Choudhary Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan movement activist, who published it in his pamphlet Now or Never.[18] The name is an acronym representing the "thirty million Muslim brethren who live in PAKSTAN—by which we mean the five Northern units of India via: Punjab, North-West Frontier Province (Afghan Province), Kashmir, Sind, and Baluchistan". The letter 'I' was later added to ease pronunciation.