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To: JPR who wrote (11904)	3/29/2002 9:10:06 AM
From: JPR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

The Land of the Pure- a false blurb Read: The land of punks, apes, klutz and Imbeciles + stan Evidence provided by Pakistani human rights commission. PAKISTAN: Sthaa is a Sanskrit word for "to stand, a place." This word was a spoken and written word in India, when the rest of the world was grunting, cooing, clucking, burping, screaming, hollering and howling to express their thoughts. Even older than Sanskrit were the Dravidian languages, of which putative honey-sweet Tamil is the foremost language. Coming to the origin of PAKISTAN, it is a known secret that it stands for more interesting attitude. P: Punks A: Apes K: Klutz I: Imbeciles + STAN : The Land of Punks, Apes, Klutz and Imbeciles. The corroborating evidence is provided by a Pakistani human rights organization: Click and cry : hrcp-web.org 1: Honor killings 2: Rampant physical and sexual abuse of children 3: Export of children to Middle East as camel jockeys 4: A gap between rhetoric and actual practice 5: Curtailment of political activity 6: Torture killings by police 7: Very high maternal mortality 8: Very high infant mortality 9: Very low priority for health 10: Judiciary corruption and inefficiency 11: Murder, rape and other abuses by law enforcement agencies 12: Debt Slavery 13: Self-censorship by the press Now read the official blurb PAKISTAN: "THE LAND OF THE PURE" The originator of the word PAKISTAN, Chowdhry Rehmat Ali wrote of his concepts, " 'Pakistan' is both a Persian and an Urdu word. It is composed of letters taken from the names of all our homelands- 'Indian' and 'Asian', that is Punjab, Afghania (North- West Frontier Province), Kashmir, Iran, Sindh (including Kachch and Kathiawar), Tukharistan, Afghanistan and BaluchistaN. It means the land of the Paks - the spiritually pure and clean. It symbolizes the religious beliefs and the ethnical stocks of our people; and it stands for all the territorial constituents of our original Fatherland. It has no other origin and no other meaning; and it does not admit of any other interpretation." bartleby.com Many central and south Asian states and regions end with the element -stan, such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Baluchistan, Kurdistan, and Turkistan. This -stan is formed from the Iranian root *st -, "to stand, stay," and means "place (where one stays), home, country." Iranian peoples have been the principal inhabitants of the geographical region occupied by these states for over a thousand years. The names are compounds of -stan and the name of the people living there. Pakistan is a bit of an exception; its name was coined in 1933 using the suffix -istan from Baluchistan preceded by the initial letters of Punjab, Afghanistan, and Kashmir. oInterestingly, a word almost identical in form, etymology, and meaning to the Iranian suffix -stan is found in Polish, which has a word stan meaning "state" (in the senses of both polity and condition). It can be found in the Polish name for the "United States of America," Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki (literally "States United of America").