-Which is its location? What countries does it border with?
It is located on Middle East, at the South of Asia.
It's borders are:
North: China, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan
West: Afghanistan, Iran
East: India
South: Arabian Sea, India
-What does the geography say about the country?
The northern and western highlands of Pakistan contain the towering Karakoram and Pamir mountain ranges, which include some of the world's highest peaks: K2 (8,611 m) and Nanga Parbat (8,126 m). The Baluchistan Plateau lies to the west, and the Thar Desert and an expanse of alluvial plains, the Punjab and Sind, lie to the east. The 1,000-mile-long Indus River and its tributaries flow through the country from the Kashmir region to the Arabian Sea.
-What is the dominant religion? Which other exist?
The Dominant Religion on Pakistan are the Muslims with 173,000,000 people.
Othe religions are Sunni Muslims, Shia Muslims, Hindus, Christians, Ahmadis, Bahá'ís, Sikhs, Buddhists, Zoroastrian, Parsis, Animists, Atheists, Jews.
-What are the different ethnic groups?
Punjabis 44.15%
Pashtuns 15.42%
Sindhis 14.1%
Seraikis 10.53%
Muhajirs 7.57%
Balochis 3.57%
Kashmiris and Others 4.66%
-Which ones are the main customs and traditions?
Pakistan has many cultural practices like, food, monuments, and shrines that were inherited from the rule of Muslim Mughal and Afghan emperors. The national dress is the shalwar qamiz that's originally from Central Asian. Women wear brightly coloured shalwar qamiz, while men often wear solid-coloured ones. The variety of Pakistani music ranges from diverse provincial folk music and traditional styles such as Qawwali and Ghazal Gayaki. There are many festivals celebrated annually in Pakistan like Pakistan Day (23 March), Independence Day (14 August), Defence of Pakistan Day (6 September), Pakistan Air Force Day (7 September), the anniversaries of the birth (25 December) and death (11 September) of Quaid-e-Azam, birth of Allama Iqbal (9 November), the birth (30 July) and death (8 July) of Madar-e-Millat. Labour Day.
-How is this his life different from yours?
I think the life of Minhaj it's totally different from mine, because we are from different religions, and Muslim is a very difficult religion, because of it's principles. Some things Minhaj can't do are he can't have sex before marriage, don't drink alcohol, nor eating pork; so with my religion I can do those things. Also I think it is very difficult for Minhaj to choose with his college friends or with his family and Muslims friends.
-Which custom caught your attention?
It caught my attention many things that Minhaj did, but what most caught my attention is that Muslims can't drink alcohol, because I think nothing happens if you take a cup of Vodka or Bacardi, and I think that this Islam principle makes several cases like Minhaj case.
-How does his religion affect his way of acting?
I think that Islam makes him only make friends with Muslim people, because he can't have sex, can't drink alcohol, etc; so I think that's what teenagers mostly do, so he is being forced by his religion to make Muslims friends. Because that is what the Koran say, it is the holy book for Muslims and they need to obey it.
Name: Rashid Al-Fayed
Age: 19 Years
Religion: Sunni Muslim
Ethnicity: Punjabi
-How often do you go to a religous service? Where? What happens there?
I had made religuos rituals all the days of my life, mostly two time a day, I'll try I do them on my home with my family or on the Mosque (I feel better to do them there). On our rituals we do very important things like when sunset and sunrise, we get on our knees and we repeat the mantras (to thank God).
-Do you know anyone of a different religion? How do you get along?
I know some people from other religions, some of them are from the same ethnicity so that makes a lot of conflicts between them, I think it is okay to being friend with people from other religions, but respecting there religion, and trying to keep you're thoughts or the way you're family and religion thinks.
-Do boys and girls hang out socially? Do you go to parties?
We can hang out with girls but the girls need to have the neccesary clothes so the only part of their skin that can be shown are their eyes. We usually hang out with people from the same religion (Sunni Muslim), and when we go to parties it is usually boring because we can't drink, nor have sex, because the Koran prohibited those things.
-How many people live in your house? How do you interact?
All my family live in my house (cousins, grandparents, brothers, parents, uncles, etc); we interact very good, because we have lived there long ago so for us now it's normal, and we are a very good family.
-Who goes to school in your family?
My oldest brother was the only one that had went to school, now my father can't send us because some terrorists groups had conquer the industry of my father, so we needed to go very quick, and now I'm working at another industry of my dad.
-How do you dress?
On important days for our religion we dress the traditional way, and on other days we dress very normal, but allways with the turban.
-Which ones are your daily chores?
I only perform this chores when we eat, at sunset and sunrise, and on religios celebrations.
-What does it mean to be belong to your ethnic group?
What Punjabi means is Shahmukhi ਪੰਜਾਬ province of Pakistan is by far the country's most populous and prosperous region and is home to the Punjabis and various other groups. The province was founded in its current form in May 1972, and our Pakistani-administered Azad Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir. It means a lot to me this ethinc group i could give my life and if another ethnic group came to make suffer my people I would hit him and his group or even kill him.
-Where are your relatives from?
Long ago we were from Saudi Arabia, but we move to Pakistan, because of USA. Now we are trying to make some more money and move to Canada.
-Do you hang out with people of other ethnicities? How do you get along?
No! That would be the last thing I would do.
-Do you have to marry someone of your same ethnicity?
Yes, my father wants to marry me with his friends daughter, but I love a girl called Samara that's Sindhi.
-Describe a typical tradition.
I think that the most important tradition on Muslims; is that once on your'e life you have to go to La Mecca, and pray their.
