КУРДСКИЙ СЛЕД В ПАКИСТАНЕ

Abstract

Noting the polyethnicity of the Pakistani state, the author tried to trace the «Kurdish trace in Pakistan». It was noted that representatives of various peoples and nationalities live on the territory of Pakistan, who speak more than 60 languages. And one of the small communities among them are the Iraqi Kurds, whose number, according to some estimates, reaches 250 people. In 1659, the Kurdish historian Akhund Mohmmad Saleh Zangana wrote the book «Kurd Talk Letter». It examines the history of the origin of the Baluch, originally from the Kurdish race. In recent decades, the Baluchs, like the Kurds, have been actively developing a movement for national self-determination demanding independence from Shiite Iran, as well as Pakistan. The main reason for the confrontation in Iran is related to the religious component, since the Baluchis are Sunnis. The examples of twice Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto (1988–1990; 1993–1996), as well as Minister for Education (2002–2007) and for Defense Production of Pakistan Zubaida Jalal Khan (2018–2022) were cited as the most famous Kurds of Pakistan in the world Kurdish community. It was noted that the first in recent history the female head of government in a country with a predominantly Muslim population, Benazir Bhutto, was a Kurdish woman by her mother Begum Nusrat Bhutto (Nusrat Isfahani (1929–2011)). Despite the small number of Kurds in Pakistan, some of them, who have Kurdish roots, manage to occupy high positions in government structures and achieve a certain degree of self-realization during historical assimilation.