Why are there so many Shias in Pakistan?
>>220827317Pakistan was pan islamic movement Sunnis,shias and even ahmedis supported it for example Ismaili leader Agha Khan was one of the founders and the first president of the All-India Muslim League first Pakistan foreign minister was a ahmedi muslim,now it's illegal for a Pakistani ahmedi to declare themselves as muslim
>>220827317I thought Pakistanis hated Shias
>>220830798>>220830728pan-islamism is a bigger spook than pan-arabism
>>220827317What does the Paki in Pakistan refer to? Looking it up online, the majority of results are pointing to it being a derogatory slur. But what is the original etymology? Why name their country Paki-land?
>>220831747I thought it was an acronym.
>>220831747>The name Pakistan was coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan Movement activist, who in January 1933 first published it (originally as "Pakstan") in a pamphlet Now or Never, using it as an acronym.[21][22][23] Rahmat Ali explained: "It is composed of letters taken from the names of all our homelands, Indian and Asian, Panjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Baluchistan." He added, "Pakistan is both a Persian and Urdu word... It means the land of the Paks, the spiritually pure and clean."[24] Etymologists note that پاک pāk, is 'pure' in Persian and Pashto and the Persian suffix ـستان -stan means 'land' or 'place of'.[22] >Rahmat Ali's concept of Pakistan only related to the northwestern area of the Indian subcontinent. He also proposed the name "Banglastan" for the Muslim areas of Bengal and "Osmanistan" for Hyderabad State, as well as a political federation between the three.[25]
>>220827317I know the Fatimid caliphate sent missionaries to the region in the middle easts
>>220835214Did you know there was an Ismaili emirate that pledged allegiance to the Fatimids in Egypt?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirate_of_Multan
>>220835576I had no fucking ideaFatimids always surprise me
