Flag of Pakistan and Map of Pakistan

By Hayi Mansoor

Before the Second World War, Muslims and Hindus lived together a country under the control of England. A number of the Muslims formed the All India Muslim League. After the Second World War, when the separation of India led to the creation of: Pakistan, the flag of the Muslim League served as the basis for the flag of Pakistan.

A designer named Amir-Din Khidwai studied the League's flag, as he tried to design a flag for a new, independent nation. Finally he arrived at a design, and he presented it to the men who would run the new Pakistan government. The Pakistan government adopted his design on August 11, 1947.

The Pakistan flag has a dark green background, emblematic of the large Muslim population in that country. Still, the Muslims of Pakistan wanted people of all faiths to feel welcome in their country. For that reason, the flag of Pakistan has a wide white bar along the side that touches the flag pole. That bar signals a welcome to all religious minorities.

On the dark green background of the Pakistan flag, one finds a white crescent moon and white, five-pointed star. The moon is meant to represent progress; the star designates the importance of light and knowledge. The Pakistan flag indicated the readiness of Pakistani citizens to look to light and knowledge and to encourage progress within Pakistan.

The Pakistan government has pronounced rules about the flying of the Pakistan flag. The government has called for display of the flag at full mast on March 23 of each year. That display recognizes both the adoption of the Lahore Resolution in 1940 and the Declaration of the Republic of Pakistan in 1956.

Flag raisers in Pakistan also make a point of hoisting the flag each year on the eighth day of August. That is considered to be Pakistan's Independence Day. Authorities in Pakistan became free of British control on August 8, 1947.

A look at the map of Pakistan shows where government officials expect to see the dark green flag with the white symbols. The Pakistan flag flies at the various crossing points along each of Pakistan's borders. Citizens of India, the country to the east of Pakistan can thus see the Pakistan flag from India's western border.

Citizens of Iran and Afghanistan can view the flag of Pakistan from points to the west of Pakistan. A section of Afghanistan and a section of China are found north of Pakistan. The green flag of Pakistan flies from points along that northern border. The waters that come from the Persian Gulf flow past southern Pakistan. Ships in that waterway can expect to see the green flag of Pakistan.

One section in the north of Pakistan has required the placement of a special footnote on the map of Pakistan. That is the region of land known as Kashmir. One portion of the land in Kashmir is administered by authorities from Pakistan, but is does not have provincial status in Pakistan. A second portion of Kashmir is administered by Indian authorities.

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