The determination was eight years after the country’s independence.
Pakistan, which means “land of the pure,” was founded after World War II, at the decline of the British Empire.
In the drive for its independence, Islam as a religion was the unifying element of a people of different ethnic communities and with diverse languages.
Since its birth, Pakistan suffered permanent political crises.
Its first Constitution, of March 1956, was repealed by a coup on October 7, 1958, which proclaimed Martial Law.
Starting in the late 1960s, the country located in South Asia suffered innumerable processes of democratic interruption, between civil wars and dictatorships.
However, within a strong culture imposed by Islamism, politically and socially, Pakistan twice elected a woman as Head of State.
This was the case of Benazir Bhutto who won the general elections in 1988 and 1993.
In the mid 1990s, Pakistan received millions of Afghans who were expelled by the Soviet Union in its invasion of Afghanistan.
To fight the Soviets from the Pakistani border, the country was militarily occupied by the main enemy of the Bolshevik government: the United States.
In addition, the US army used Pakistani soil to supply weapons to rebel groups fighting against the government in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.
In this way, the US-Afghanistan relationship was strengthened.
However, nepotism, dictatorships, corruption, and martial law unfolded over the decades in a country that became a focus of political, military, and religious turmoil.
In turn, international complaints for the lack of civil and gender rights were and are frequent.
Even as part of the conflict in the region, Pakistan hosted Al Qaeda terrorist cells, whose leader Osama Bin Laden was captured by the US army in 2011 on Pakistani land.
In recent years, Pakistan has suffered many suicide attacks in its urban centers as a result of ethnic and religious strife, as well as economic crises and conflicts with the Taliban.
In January this year, 59 people were killed in a suicide attack on a mosque in the northwest of the country.
A man detonated a bomb that he was carrying on his body when entering the religious establishment where almost 300 people prayed.
Its capital, Islamabad, concentrates the largest number of inhabitants in a country with approximately 200 million inhabitants.
Pakistan, which is one of the five most populous countries in the world, celebrates every March 23 being the first Islamic republic since 1956.
The story is also news. Radius Profile. Script by Andrés Ruiz and locution by Pita Fortín.