Etymology

The name Pakistan literally means "land of the pure" in Urdu and Persian. It alludes to the

word ‫پاک‬ (pāk), meaning "pure" in Persian and Pashto.[40] The suffix ‫ـستان‬ (-stān) is a Persian suffix
meaning the place of, and also recalls the synonymous (and cognate) Sanskrit word स्थान (sthāna).[41]
The name of the country was coined in 1933 as Pakstan by Choudhry Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan
Movement activist, who published it in his pamphlet Now or Never,[42] using it as an acronym ("thirty
million Muslim brethren who live in PAKSTAN") referring to the names of the five northern regions
of British India: Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Baluchistan.[43][44][45] The letter i was
incorporated to ease pronunciation. [46]