Pakistan (Alternity)

Pakistan, officially known as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (Urdu: اسلامی جمہوریۂ پاکستان) is a defunct nation, formerly located in South Asia. The territory of Pakistan was comprised of the modern-day nations of Balochistan, West Punjab, Baltistan, and the northern provinces of Sindhustan. Created from the northwestern portion of British India in 1947, Pakistan's largely Muslim populace almost immediately came into conflict with neighboring India (over the division of the state of Kashmir) in the indecisive First Indo-Pakistani War that lasted from 1947 to 1948. For the next eighteen years, the two remained in state of uneasy peace, concentrating on building up their young nations. In 1965, Pakistan broke the uneasy peace and attacked an India still weakened from its defeat in the Sino-Indian War three years earlier, hoping to gain total domination over Kashmir before the Indian military could react.