Talk:History of Pakistan (1947–present)

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Copy edit
Greetings to all. I will be copy editing this article over the next few days. I tend to boldly change; this irritates some people. I will try to make changes discrete, so if you don't like anything it should be easy to revert. Or just ping me and ask me what the heck I thought I was doing. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:50, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Orphaned references in History of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of History of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "BBC": From State of emergency:  From List of floods:  From Pervez Musharraf:  From Mansurul Haq: "Former Pakistani navy chief arrested" BBC News, 12 April 2001 From Pakistan International Airlines: EU bans Pakistan airline flights – BBC News – Obtained 5 March 2007.  From Muhammad Ali Jinnah:  From Jeddah: </li> <li>From United Kingdom: </li> <li>From Foreign relations of Pakistan: </li> <li>From Nawaz Sharif: </li> <li>From Dalit: </li> <li>From Aurangzeb: </li> <li>From Jammu and Kashmir: </li> <li>From Abul A'la Maududi: </li> <li>From Bangladesh Liberation War: </li> </ul>

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To do list
I have copy edited this article and removed the copy edit tag. The article seems to be in pretty good shape to me, but I thought that it might help if I were to flag up some areas in which it could be improved. There are a lot of other areas for improvement, but those three would go a long way. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:06, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
 * The lead is in need of expansion. Perhaps a paragraph for each section in the article.
 * The article needs bringing up to date. Someone with the knowledge and sources could usefully add the last 10 years of Pakistani history.
 * The sources and citations need a review. Many seem to be dead or not properly linked.

Requested move 10 July 2020
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 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

History of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan → History of Pakistan (1947–present) – The title is less confusing and gives clarity on which period it refers to. Interstellarity (talk) 00:19, 10 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Oppose – nothing confusing about the current title, and the proposal violates MOS:DASH . --IJBall (contribs • talk) 00:28, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose as above. History of Pakistan might be better though - unless I'm mistaken Pakistan was not formally an "Islamic Republic" until the Constitution of Pakistan of 1956.  "Present" is dubious anyway - I notice that per the article nothing seems to have happened in Pakistan since 2013, but of course suggesting renames is far more important that updating text. Johnbod (talk) 03:43, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I have changed my proposal from a hyphen to a dash in line with the RM at Talk:History_of_Bangladesh_(1971–present). Interstellarity (talk) 15:10, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Support per common name. While the current title is accurate, certainly more people call the country simply 'Pakistan', and I assume many people would not know what period 'the Islamic Republic of Pakistan' referred to without opening the article. ‡ Єl Cid of Valencia  talk  15:53, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Exactly! So why not just call it History of Pakistan? As explained above, it only goes up to 2013 at present anyway. Johnbod (talk) 15:58, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, I don't quite follow - are you saying we should move this page to History of Pakistan or merge this page into the existing History of Pakistan page? Or a third option? ‡ Єl Cid of Valencia  talk  17:15, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Good question - I'd missed that History of Pakistan is its own article, not a redirect here, as I'd assumed - I was proposing a rename to that. That might be possible if the rather dubious title for the current History of Pakistan is changed, but that's probably too complicated. The two are both far too long to merge, so that's out. So probably keep the present name. Johnbod (talk) 13:24, 14 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Support, is more clear and accessible. – Thjarkur (talk) 19:10, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Support. It wasn't a republic between 1947 and 1956. DrKay (talk) 16:29, 20 July 2020 (UTC)


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Merge from Political History of Pakistan
The Political history of Pakistan requires a lot of work, citations, and updated information, considering most of its sections contents are included in this article, I think the best thing to do is merge it into this article. Titan2456 (talk) 01:29, 25 June 2024 (UTC)


 * i agree, Political history of Pakistan lacks general citations or is transcluded from this page, it would be simpler also compress general history pages of Pakistan. Canned Knight (talk) 15:28, 29 June 2024 (UTC)