People who are from Pakistan or have Pakistani citizenship and heritage.
From Pakistan (named after Urdu 'Pak' meaning pure, combined with 'stan' meaning land) plus the English plural suffix '-is' adapted to English conventions. The country was founded in 1947 after partition from India.
Pakistan was created as the world's first nation-state explicitly designed as a homeland for Muslims, making it unique in how it was founded on religious identity rather than geographic or ethnic unity.
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