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Asia Pakistan

Guide to Pakistan, family history and genealogy parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Welcome to the PAKISTAN page



---LOCATION---

Pakistan is located on the Indian sub-continent. It is a sovereign country with a population exceeding 180 million people, it is the sixth most populous country and with an area covering 796,095 km2 (307,374 sq mi), it is the 36th largest country in the world in terms of area.

Pakistan has a 1,046-kilometre (650 mi) coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest and China to the far northeast

---HISTORY---

Some of the earliest ancient human civilizations in South Asia originated from areas encompassing present-day Pakistan.

The Indus region, which covers most of Pakistan, was the site of several successive ancient cultures including the Neolithic Mehrgarh and the Bronze Age Indus Valley CiviliZation (2800–1800 BCE) at Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro.

By the early 18th century, the increasing European influence caused to slowly disintegrate the local empires with the lines between commercial and political dominance being increasingly blurred.

During this time, the English East India Company, had established coastal outposts. Control over the seas due to England's increasingly powerful navy, greater resources, technology, and military force projection by East India Company of British Empire led it to increasingly flex its military muscle; a factor that was crucial in allowing the Company to gain control over subcontinent by 1765 and sidelining the European competitors.

After the cessation of WWII, Great Britain announced the intentions to end its raj in India in 1946–47. As the United Kingdom agreed upon partitioning of India in 1947, the modern state of Pakistan was established on 14 August 1947. Initially it included Bangladesh, but the difficulties of governing 2 sections of the Indian sub-continent more than 1,000 miles apart, resulted in the establishment of Bangladesh after the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.

---RELIGION---

The Vedic Civilization (1500–500 BCE), characterized by Indo-Aryan culture, laid the foundations of Hinduism, which would become well established in the region. Multan was an important Hindu pilgrimage center.

The Medieval period (642–1219 CE) is defined by the spread of Islam in the region. During this period, Sufi missionaries played a pivotal role in converting a majority of the regional Buddhist and Hindu population to Islam. Today, more than 90% of Pakistan's population are Muslim.

---RECORDS---

At present there is no source for Birth, Marriage, and Death records in Bhutan. The following link provides some insight into Bhutan genealogy:

Bhutan Genealogy

---OTHER WEBSITES---

Kindred trails for Bhutan

Ancestry.com, Bhutan


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