1. What is your country’s governmental system? Please provide a definition.
Pakistan is a federal republic. Pakistan’s legal system is based on English common law with provisions to accommodate Pakistan's status as an Islamic state. There is an elected President and a Prime Minister chosen to represent the majority in Parliament.2. List five important events in your country’s history since 1914.
Establishment of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on 14 August 1947
First Kashmir War from 1947_1948
Election of Benazir Bhutto as the first female prime-minister of Pakistan in 1988
Pakistan joins Nuclear club in 1998
President Asif Ali Zardari’s entrance into office on 9 December 2008
3. What is your country’s economic system?
Pakistan’s economy is capitalist, Pakistan is a mostly agrarian society.
4. List your nation’s five largest trading partners.
Pakistan’s largest trading partners are the United States, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, China, and the United Kingdom, respectively.
5. What is the monetary size of your domestic and foreign debt?
Pakistan’s foreign debt is 49.8% of its Gross Domestic Product, or $43.23 billion. Pakistan’s domestic debt is 2.9 trillion rupees, or approximately $57.75 billion.
6. To which country does your country owe the most money?
Pakistan’s biggest creditor is Japan.
7. What is the numerical size of your standing and reserve armed forces?
Pakistan has a total of approximately 650,000 active personnel on duty, a total of approximately 520,000 personnel in the military reserve, and a total of approximately 302,000 personnel serve in Pakistani paramilitary forces.
8. Are you a nuclear power?
Yes.
9. List your country’s most important cultural values?
Pakistan’s most important cultural values are moderately conservative. Almost all live in accordance with Islamic faith and the Koran.
10. To what extent, if any, does your government control media and culture? Briefly describe.
Pakistan’s government tries to control media as much as possible, but does not have full control.
11. List your country’s most important resources?
Pakistan's most important resources include textiles, rice, leather goods and chemicals.
3. What is your country’s economic system?
Pakistan’s economy is capitalist, Pakistan is a mostly agrarian society.
4. List your nation’s five largest trading partners.
Pakistan’s largest trading partners are the United States, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, China, and the United Kingdom, respectively.
5. What is the monetary size of your domestic and foreign debt?
Pakistan’s foreign debt is 49.8% of its Gross Domestic Product, or $43.23 billion. Pakistan’s domestic debt is 2.9 trillion rupees, or approximately $57.75 billion.
6. To which country does your country owe the most money?
Pakistan’s biggest creditor is Japan.
7. What is the numerical size of your standing and reserve armed forces?
Pakistan has a total of approximately 650,000 active personnel on duty, a total of approximately 520,000 personnel in the military reserve, and a total of approximately 302,000 personnel serve in Pakistani paramilitary forces.
8. Are you a nuclear power?
Yes.
9. List your country’s most important cultural values?
Pakistan’s most important cultural values are moderately conservative. Almost all live in accordance with Islamic faith and the Koran.
10. To what extent, if any, does your government control media and culture? Briefly describe.
Pakistan’s government tries to control media as much as possible, but does not have full control.
11. List your country’s most important resources?
Pakistan's most important resources include textiles, rice, leather goods and chemicals.
12. List the important resources your country is lacking? i.e. what does it need to import a great deal of?
Pakistan’s highest-valued imports include oil, petroleum, oil and petroleum products, plastics, iron, paper, steel, and tea.
13. What is your country’s population?
Pakistan has a population of 176,242,949 people.
14. What is your country’s main religion? What percentage of your people are this religion?
Pakistan’s main religion is Islam, making up 95% of the population (75% Sunni and 20% Shia).
15. List other religions, if there are any, which play an important role in your country?
Other religions in Pakistan include Christianity and Hinduism, which account for 5% of the population.
16. What is your government’s policy towards religion and state?
Although the official government of Pakistan is a secular federal republic, the constitutions bans the creation of any law that goes against the teachings of the prophet Mohammad. The Pakistani government is under increasing pressure from fundamentalist religious groups (such as the Taliban) who are not in accordance with state law. However, most of the people of Pakistan are moderate, as is the government.
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