The Pakistani People

Pakistanis are a mix variety of people united by religion, culture, and ideals. Pakistanis are usually Baluchi, Sindhi, Pashtun, Punjabi, and Kashmiri with different but very similar cultures united by one major language: Urdu. Although some of these cultural people stay in parts of Pakistan where their culture is mostly dominating, you can sight them all in every part of Pakistan especially in urban places such as Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore, Quetta, Peshawar, Muzaffarabad and many more cities. Pakistan is prominently muslim with a 97% muslim population [2nd highest in the world] but has minoritiy groups such as christians, hindus, sikhs, parsis, and very small amount of jews. Migrants from India during the partition have dwelled into the communities they settled in and are considered locals by themselves as well as the orignal community members. There are also 2 million registered afgani refugees in Pakistan as a result of war and instablility in Afghanistan.