One of the countries talked about in these chapters was Pakistan. Pakistan is one of the oldest civilizations of people in the world (the Indus Valley people, dating back over 5,000 years). The country has seen many changes over the years between different cultural and religious take overs. The country is currently of Muslim culture with a population of 187,347,000 people, with the average age being 21. Only 36% of the country has been urbanized, with the rest of the country being predominantly desert and mountainous with sporadic villages. The country is at high risk of infectious disease due to the lack of proper sterilization of water sources and food.
Pakistan is an impoverished and underdeveloped country. The country has suffered from decades of internal governmental dispute, which has left the population unsettled. The economy has suffered greatly from inflation and this still remains among the top concerns of its citizens.
Pakistan has also made the news recently as being the country that harbored Osama bin Laden over the past few years, just a few mile outside of the capital city of Islamabad. Pakistan had been unwilling to allow US military efforts to find bin Laden in their country (despite being allies) and claimed that their military was searching for bin Laden and that their was no way he could be hiding out in their country.
http://www.pakistan.gov.pk/
Chris Gioux
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