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Pakistan - Zindabad !!

Huge Pakistan flags appear everywhere in advance of the country's 60th birthday. Even more amusing are the t-shirts with "Salaam Pakistan" printed next to pictures of tanks or rockets, not to mention badges of Jinnah and Pakistans other great hero, their top nuclear scientist (the one who sold the bomb to North Korea...)
Chelo Pakistan!!

August 10th 2007
In Urdu/Hindi "Chelo" means "go" or "to go" and so the phrase"Chelo Pakistan" means literally "go to Pakistan". Seems pretty harmless but no, in India this is the worst insult you can give to somebody - really, you can use a string of F-words and other expletives and they will still be there waggling their head, smiling stupidly and doing whatever it was that drove you crazy in the first place. Bu ... read more
Asia » Pakistan » Islamabad

Pakistani Flag The separation in 1947 of British India into the Muslim state of Pakistan (with two sections West and East) and largely Hindu India was never satisfactorily resolved, and India and Pakistan have fought two wars - in 1947-48 and 1965 - over the disput... ... read more
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