ABSTRACT
Pakistan was created as a national homeland for the Muslims of India when the South Asian subcontinent was partitioned in 1947. Bounded in the West by Iran and Afghanistan, in the North by the foothills of the Himalayas (across which lies Central Asia), in the East by India, and in the South by the Arabian Sea, Pakistan is the ninth most populous country in the world with an estimated population of over 112 million people and a high annual growth rate of 3.1 per cent (World Bank, 1992).
