PAKISTAN – A SOVEREIGN STATE

Pakistan is located in South Asia, surrounded by four immediate neighbors; it is bordered on the north-east by China, on the east by India, and the west by Iran and Afghanistan. The disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir lies on the northeast tip of the country. Pakistan is a federation of four provinces. These provinces are Sindh, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly North-West Frontier Province) and Baluchistan. In addition, there are also federally and provincially administered areas such as the capital city of Islamabad (or the Islamabad Capital Territory) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) as well as the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA) (Sohail 2020). The significant rivers in Pakistan are the Indus and its four tributaries; the Ravi, Chenab, Sutlej, and Jhelum (Hasan 2002).

My grandmother emigrated from Amritsar to the cultural capital of Punjab – Lahore, a city in chaos, a city striving to survive.