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The ''Islamic Caliphate'' and Pakistan
by Cogito_ergo... on Dec 30, 2005 01:11 PM

Mr Raman's mention that:      "LeT, the HUJI and the JeM ... look upon J&K, Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh and Junagadh in Gujarat as rightfully belonging to Pakistan. They want to... incorporate their 'homelands' in the so-called Islamic Caliphate advocated by bin Laden"       is interesting.
Actually, it would appear that the "Islamic Caliphate" itself was envisioned by Chaudhari Rehmat Ali, who coined the name PAKISTAN and was the real founder of Pakistan. He did so in 1931, when he had gone to UK to study Law at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University. Rehmar Ali's PAKISTAN conisted of *P*unjab (whole of it), *A*fghania (actually the entire North West Frontier Region), *K*ashmir, *I*ran, *S*indh, *T*ukharistan (the area area that existed as Turkmenistan and parts of the other contiguous Central Asian states), *A*fghanistan, and Balochista*N*. The letters inside the pairs of stars formed the acronym PAKISTAN. In fact, earlier editions of the Oxford English Dictionary and its "Concise" versions contained this definition of Pakistan, and it still exists in several other current English dictionaries. [contd.]

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