Pakistan was created by the partition of British India in 1947, but its territory was divided into two enclaves separated by hundreds of miles. While they shared a religion, Islam, there were major cultural and linguistic differences between East and West Pakistan.
巴基斯坦起源于1947年英属印度的分裂，但这一地区被分割成相距数百英里之遥的两块飞地。 尽管同样信仰伊斯兰教，但东西巴基斯坦之间存在相当大的文化和语言差异。