Talk:Pakistanis in the Netherlands

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A Google search shows that there are no reliable sources using the terms "Dutch Pakistanis", "Pakistani Dutch" to refer to this population. Even Dutch-language "Pakistaanse Nederlanders" gets only 14 GHits. I've added a bibliography of English sources that can be used to expand the article. Also, I removed the following unsourced paragraphs, please do not re-insert them without sources:

Most of the Pakistani immigrants to the Netherlands spoke a number of languages such as Urdu, Punjabi, Pashto, Sindhi, English, and many more languages. Some Dutch have claimed to have Pakistani heritage, and only speak the Dutch language.

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In 2007, a reported 10,000 people in the United Kingdom, mainly England, had claimed Pakistani/Dutch ancestry. The Pakistani-Dutch population were 0.9% of the Pakistani British population. Most Dutch Pakistanis immigrated to other parts of the world such as Germany, Russia, England, Czechoslovakia, and other parts of European countries. In the United States, 0.06% of the US population are Dutch Pakistani emigrants.

There is no possible way that "0.06% of the US population are Dutch Pakistani emigrants." That would be 180,000 people, which is more than half the entire Pakistani American population. cab (talk) 15:33, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]