Snow Leopard
This rare, thick-furred big cat hunts high in the Karakoram and Himalayan mountains of northern Pakistan, where the air is thin and the peaks are some of the tallest on Earth.
Flag of Pakistan
Field Report
Pakistan is a country in South Asia, tucked between India to the east, Afghanistan to the north and west, and the Arabian Sea to the south. It is home to more than 230 million people who speak dozens of different languages and live everywhere from towering mountain villages to busy desert cities. Most people in Pakistan have not yet had a chance to hear about Jesus, which makes it one of the most important places in the world for Christians to pray for.
From the Field Notebook
Snow Leopard
This rare, thick-furred big cat hunts high in the Karakoram and Himalayan mountains of northern Pakistan, where the air is thin and the peaks are some of the tallest on Earth.
Markhor
Pakistan's national animal is a wild mountain goat with long, corkscrew-shaped horns that can grow taller than a man's arm span.
Indus River Dolphin
This nearly blind freshwater dolphin navigates the muddy Indus River by echolocation and is found nowhere else on the planet.
Nihari
A slow-cooked beef or lamb stew seasoned with warm spices, it is traditionally eaten at breakfast and has been simmering in pots across Pakistan for hundreds of years.
Chapati
This thin, unleavened flatbread is cooked fresh on a hot iron griddle and appears at nearly every meal as the everyday bread of Pakistani families.
Mango
Pakistan grows hundreds of varieties of mango, and families across the country consider the sweet, juicy Chaunsa mango one of the finest fruits in the world.
Pakistan is home to five of the world's seventeen tallest mountains, including K2, the second-highest peak on Earth, which mountaineers consider harder to climb than Everest.
The city of Karachi has a population of more than 18 million people, making it one of the largest cities in the world and projected to be among the top five by 2050.
The Indus Valley Civilization, one of the oldest urban cultures in human history, thrived in what is now Pakistan more than four thousand years ago, with cities that had running water before Rome existed.
Pakistan was created as a brand-new country in 1947, meaning it is younger than many grandparents alive today, making it one of the newer nations on the world map.
The Karakoram Highway, which cuts through the mountains of northern Pakistan, is often called the eighth wonder of the world because engineers carved it through some of the most extreme terrain on Earth.
Daily Life
68
Years life expectancy
59%
Can read and write
68%
Kids go to school
Missions Field Report
Pakistan is home to 776 distinct people groups — 768 of them haven’t yet heard about Jesus.
Nearly all Pakistan's people follow Islam (97.3%).
What People Believe
Unreached People Groups
These are communities of people who haven’t had the chance to hear about Jesus yet. They need missionaries — and they need kids like you to pray for them.
Pashtun
32,823,000 people
Jat (Muslim traditions)
17,607,000 people
Shaikh
15,673,000 people
Arain (Muslim traditions)
11,709,000 people
Rajput (Muslim traditions)
6,853,000 people
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