Pakistan is now officially Middle Eastern.>The World Bank has reclassified Pakistan from South Asia to its Middle East and North Africa region, effective from 1 July 2025.
>>220837609Based
>separating between jeets and pakishmm
>>220837617Good for them. Good for us.I'm surprised you didn't fight this, though.
>>220837609Obviously culturally Pakistan will always be South Asian AKA subcontinental AKA Indian.But geopolitically Pakistan seeks more cooperation with middle eastern countries like Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Which makes sense because in the small pond that is South Asia there is already India, and they don't like sharing the pond. In West Asia, Pakistan, with its nuclear weapons and relatively advanced military, have some space to exert some influence.
>>220837609pick up and move the country to MENA too
>>220837609Someone tell them YWNBME
>>220837674Pakistan shares much more culture with iran
>>220837609brown region 1 or brown region 2, who cares
>>220837609pakistan should join the eu
>>220837787You brown too
>>220837787Bro Cyprus is EU by one nose hair and a remnant greek fart on their face
>>220837787This is the kind of cat that deserves to get ran over
>>220837803nuh uh>>220837819cyprus is outremer like israel
>>220837836Until you're done with russia and without voting powers i assumeEurope is a sick old man
The only middle eastern thing they have is islam lol
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>>220837609the time has come for pakistan to rule over MENA
>>220837886If pakistan is not middle eastern then neither is iran
>>220837886Urdu is quite literally bastardized Arab/Persian/Turk mix with an Abjad scriptIslam is a cultural religion too, half the cultural shit they used to do when they were hindoo was considered heresy and phased outYou dont understand>>220837907The other way around
>>220837907Beautiful
is Afghanistan Middle Eastern or Central Asian?
>>220838032Actual Middle East/West Asia ends at Turkey north, Iran east, Egypt west, Yemen southAfghanistan and Pakistan however are included because religion
>>220838107I also personally support including Somalia to corner Ethiopia, we should start covert Arabization initiatives.It can be done, should be done.
>>220837927> half the cultural shit they used to do when they were hindoo was considered heresy and phased outi was reading that people in pakistan became muslim as the jats, a pastoralist group of people, started moving north from sindh in the 7th century and as they moved north along the seven rivers of punjab they came into contact with the myriad of sufi shrines that had been established ever since muslim rule started in the region, their moving north also coincided with the introduction of the persian wheel which increased agricultural productivity and led them to become settled agriculturalists and to patronize and establish relations with the sufi shrines but this only concerns punjab, though.i don't think pashtuns or balochs were ever hindus since they moved from further west in the middle ages or something like it.and in sindh people were buddhist and were ruled by a hindu king from gujarat when the ummayyads conquered the region.
>>220837787>cyprus
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>>220838012it was recently renovated. this is the exterior. >>220838032i think it could be said that afghanistan is what central asia would be like if it hadn't been heavily russified and now it's been left a little bit of an orphan but personally i consider it middle eastern cause pre-russified central asia, or at least the southern countries like turkmenistan, uzbekistan, tajikistan and afghanistan were part of the greater iran cultural sphere.the lingua franca in afghanistan is still persian, they use the persian calendar and persian names (even pre-islamic ones), have nowruz, etc i've heard the persian dialect in mashhad in eastern iran is even closer to the dialect in herat, afghanistan than it is to tehran's.i don't really know why afghanistan is usually included in south asia? they're not even geographically in the subcontinent.
>>220838244In my head Afghanistan was central asia
>>220837609>Pakistan is now Middle East>pakis can now freely immigrate to EU as refugees like their ME brothersBased
>>220838032Middle East ends at Iran.
>>220838330yeah, like i said it's like the part of central asia that was never colonized.did you know that before russians came city women in places like uzbekistan and tajikistan used paranja which looks like a burqa? but now their governments claim their traditional veil is a handkerchief wrapped around the hair like what russian peasants used to wear in the early 20th century lol
>>220837609This is the Middle East
>>220837609oh shit at this rate they'll be central european by 2030
>>220838213Would.
>"I'm from Pakistan.">"Oh cool, so South Asia?">"No, I am Middle Eastern.">"Says who?">"A banking group."Sounds like they've been Jewed.
