Pakistanis

**Pakistanis** () are citizens of the modern country known as Pakistan which is located in South Asia so a Pakistani is someone who comes from that country. It refers to a person or people from Pakistan.
Every citizen of Pakistan is called a Pakistani (singular) or Pakistanis (plural).

## Further reading

- Abbasi, Nadia Mushtaq. "The Pakistani diaspora in Europe and its impact on democracy building in Pakistan". _International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance_ (2010).
- Awan, Shehzadi Zamurrad. "Relevance of Education for Women's Empowerment in Punjab, Pakistan". _Journal of International Women's Studies_ 18.1 (2016): 208+ online
- Bolognani, Marta, and Stephen Lyon, eds. _Pakistan and its diaspora: multidisciplinary approaches_ (Springer, 2011).
- Eglar, Zekiya. _A Punjabi Village in Pakistan: Perspectives on Community, Land, and Economy_ (Oxford UP, 2010).
- Kalra, Virinder S., ed. _Pakistani Diasporas: Culture, conflict, and change_ (Oxford UP, 2009).
- Bano, Sha. "Role of museums in Depicting history of cultural heritage of Pakistan". (2019).
- Marsden, Magnus. "Muslim village intellectuals: the life of the mind in northern Pakistan". _Anthropology today_ 21.1 (2005): 10–15.
- Mughal, M. A. Z. "An anthropological perspective on the mosque in Pakistan". _Asian Anthropology_ 14.2 (2015): 166–181.
- Rauf, Abdur. "Rural women and the family: A study of a Punjabi village in Pakistan". _Journal of Comparative Family Studies_ (1987): 403–415.

### Origins of Pakistanis

- Vasil'ev, I. B., P. F. Kuznetsov, and A. P. Semenova. "Potapovo Burial Ground of the Indo-Iranic Tribes on the Volga" (1994).
- Ahsan, Aitzaz. _The Indus Saga_. Roli Books Private Limited, 2005.
- Mehdi, S. Q., et al. "The origins of Pakistani populations". _Genomic Diversit_y. Springer, Boston, MA, 1999. 83–90.
- Balanovsky, Oleg, et al. "Deep phylogenetic analysis of haplogroup G1 provides estimates of SNP and STR mutation rates on the human Y-chromosome and reveals migrations of Iranic speakers". _PLoS One_ 10.4 (2015): e0122968.
- Allchin, F. R. "Archeological and Language-Historical Evidence for the Movement of Indo-Aryan Speaking Peoples into South Asia". _NARTAMONGÆ_ (1981): 65.
- Ahmed, Mukhtar. _Ancient Pakistan-an Archaeological History: Volume III: Harappan Civilization-the Material Culture_. Amazon, 2014.

## Infobox (ethnic group)

- **group**: Pakistanis

- **flag**: Flag of Pakistan.svg
- **flag caption**: Flag of Pakistan
- **population**: **Circa, c. 250 million**
- **regions**: not specific
- **pop embed**: 235,774,520
- **pop1**: 1,900,000
- **pop2**: 1,200,000
- **pop3**: 1,174,983
- **pop4**: 918,982 (2011 census)[3]
- **pop5**: 363,699
- **pop6**: 156,865
- **pop7**: 150,000
- **pop8**: 100,000+
- **pop9**: 90,000
- **pop10**: 85,000
- **pop11**: 80,000
- **pop12**: 80,000
- **pop13**: 60,000
- **pop14**: 56,000
- **pop15**: 54,000
- **pop16**: 49,000
- **pop17**: 45,000
- **pop18**: 39,134
- **pop19**: 31,277
- **pop20**: 30,000
- **pop21**: 26,714 (2023 official estimate)[18]
- **pop22**: 27,261 (2022 official)[17]
- **pop23**: 18,178 (2021 census)[72]
- **pop24**: 14,500
- **pop25**: 14,320 (2016 census)[81]
- **pop26**: 12,450
- **pop27**: 10,000
- **pop28**: 8,645 (2020 estimate)[5]
- **pop29**: 6,500
- **pop30**: 6,135 (2018 census)[113]
- **pop31**: 4,562 (2012)[75]
- **pop32**: 1,867 (2020 estimate)[5]
- **pop33**: 1,207
- **langs**: Punjabi language, Punjabi, Sindhi language, Sindhi, Pashto language, Pashto, Balochi language, Balochi, Kashmiri language, Kashmiri, Brahui language, Brahui, Balti language, Balti, Gujarati language, Gujarati, Telugu language, Telugu, Arabic language, Arabic and others
- **rels**: Islam 67% (majority Sunni Islam, Sunni, 32% Shia Islam, Shia)
**Other Religions**: Sikhism, Hinduism, Bahá'í Faith, Zoroastrianism, Christianity