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  • noun A person from Pakistan or of Pakistani descent.
  • adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Pakistan, or its people.

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Examples

  • ABDUL SATTAR, PAKISTANI FOREIGN MINISTER: The Pakistani delegation -- at a high level -- will be conveying to the Taliban government of Afghanistan the imperative of compliance with security council resolutions, both those that have been adopted in the past and the one that was adopted on the twelfth of September.

    CNN Transcript Sep 17, 2001 2001

  • And I think the message to the pakistani people will, again, reflect our long-common ties and the goodwill that the two countries have had to each other, but the hard choices that Pakistan and the Pakistani people face about their future.

    Press Background Briefing By Senior Administration Official ITY National Archives 2000

  • HUSAIN HAQQANI, PAKISTANI AMBASSADOR TO THE U.S.: The United States has not shared any evidence with the Pakistani government about these allegations.

    CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2008 2008

  • We don't subscribe to the politically correct fiction that just because they happen to be born in Britain, a Pakistani is a Briton.

    The Archmoron speaks 2009

  • We don't subscribe to the politically correct fiction that just because they happen to be born in Britain, a Pakistani is a Briton.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • He elaborates how he promotes what he calls the Pakistani languages:

    Bloggers.Pakistan 2008

  • Last month, a video surfaced on YouTube showing soldiers in Pakistani army uniforms firing at a half-dozen blindfolded prisoners.

    Expanded U.S. military aid sought for Pakistan Karen DeYoung 2010

  • The elements in Pakistani intelligence agencies were fully involved but the brave local defended their land sacrificing a lot ..

    Global Voices in English » Pakistan: Prachinar, The Valley Of Death 2009

  • KELEMEN: In a telephone interview from Vermont, Senator Leahy says he was particularly concerned by a video that surfaced on the Internet recently that seems to show armed men in Pakistani military uniforms executing six people in civilian clothes.

    U.S. To Ask Congress For $2B In Aid For Pakistan 2010

  • Last month, a video surfaced on YouTube showing soldiers in Pakistani army uniforms firing at a half-dozen blindfolded prisoners.

    Expanded U.S. military aid sought for Pakistan Karen DeYoung 2010

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