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Pakistani rupee (روپیہ)
The Pakistani rupee (روپیہ) is the currency of Pakistan, issued by the State Bank of Pakistan since independence in 1947 and worth about 281 per US dollar in 2025.
Pakistani Taliban
The Pakistani Taliban, formally Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), is an alliance of Islamist militant groups founded in 2007 under Baitullah Mehsud, distinct from but allied with the Afghan Taliban, UN-listed as Al-Qaida-associated (QDe.132), currently led by Noor Wali Mehsud.
Pakistanis
Pakistanis: the people of Pakistan or holding its nationality, 241.49 million at the 2023 digital census, growth 2.55%, mostly Sunni Muslim, Punjabi-dominant, with a Gulf-centered diaspora sending $34.6 billion in remittances in 2024.
Pakiwaitara
Pakiwaitara is a Māori-language word meaning legend, story, fiction, folklore, or yarn, and in a second sense gossip or scandal, denoting traditional narratives that transmit history, whakapapa, and knowledge.
Pakka Commercial
Pakka Commercial (పక్కా కమర్షియల్) is a 2022 Telugu courtroom action comedy directed by Maruthi, starring Gopichand, Raashii Khanna, and Sathyaraj; released 1 July 2022, it received mixed reviews and flopped at the box office.
Pakkha Thera
Pakkha Thera, born Saṇmoda into a Sākyan rāja family at Devadaha, was an arahant elder of the Buddha's time remembered for one verse, Theragāthā 63, contrasting greedy kites with his attainment of Nibbāna.
Paklenova Dibrova
Пакленова діброва (field-maple oak forest): a Ukrainian oak forest type with Acer campestre, typical of dry eastern and steppe sites, and a 1946 display plantation at the National Botanical Garden in Kyiv dominated by Quercus robur.
PAKMGTEST study
PAKMGTEST (NCT04130620), a completed observational study validating an applied kinesiology magnesium muscle stretch test against red blood cell magnesium levels in 50 chiropractic patients; no results posted.
Paknam incident
The Paknam incident was a military engagement on 13 July 1893 at the mouth of the Chao Phraya River, when French gunboats forced their way past Siamese defenses toward Bangkok.
Pakol
Pakol (pakul, khapol): soft flat-topped woollen cap with rolled brim from Gilgit and Chitral in northern Pakistan, spread to Nuristan in the late 19th century, popularized by Ahmad Shah Massud, banned by the Taliban 1996-2001.
Pakorn Nilprapunt
Pakorn Nilprapunt (ปกรณ์ นิลประพันธ์) is a Thai politician and senior legal technocrat serving as Deputy Prime Minister for Legal Affairs in Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul's cabinet.
Pakoti Corona
Pakoti Corona is a 75-km-diameter corona on Venus at 38.80°S, 42.40°E in quadrangle V-45, IAU-approved in 2010 and named for the Māori mother of harakeke (New Zealand flax), wife of Tāne.
Pākpattan District
Pakpattan District (ضلع پاکپتّن), Punjab, Pakistan, anciently Ajodhan, home of Sufi saint Baba Farid's shrine. 2,136,170 people (2023), 2,724 sq km, tehsils Pakpattan and Arifwala; district status restored 1990.
Pakri Barwadih Coal Mine
The Pakri Barwadih Coal Mine is an opencast captive coal mine in Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand, India, operated by NTPC, which was allotted the block in October 2004.
Pakri Mound
Pakri Mound: ancient burial mounds at Pakri, West Champaran district, Bihar, protected by the ASI as Vedic burial mounds per T. Bloch's 1905 excavation hypothesis; distinct from a same-named Patna-district village.
Paks nuclear power plant
The Paks nuclear power plant is Hungary's only nuclear power station, with four Soviet-designed VVER-440 reactors on the Danube about 100 km south of Budapest.
Paksha
Paksha (पक्ष) is a lunar fortnight in the Hindu calendar, half of a lunar month: the bright shukla paksha when the Moon waxes, and the dark krishna paksha when it wanes.
Pakto 1988
Pakto 1988, or Paket Oktober 1988, was a banking deregulation package issued by Indonesia on 27 October 1988, easing licensing for new banks and allowing foreign joint ventures.
Paku Alam X
Paku Alam X (Pakualaman X; born Raden Mas Wijoseno Hario Bimo, 1962) is the tenth Duke of Pakualaman, enthroned 7 January 2016 after Paku Alam IX, and Vice Governor of Yogyakarta Special Region since 25 May 2016 under Law 13/2012.
Pakualaman
Pakualaman (Kadipaten Pakualaman) is a hereditary Javanese duchy founded in 1813 through a contract with the British colonial government of Java, now a special legal entity within the Indonesian Special Region of Yogyakarta.
Pakubuwono I
Pakubuwona I, before his accession Pangeran Puger, was the seventh Susuhunan of Mataram who ruled from 1704 to 1719 with Dutch support after the First Javanese War of Succession.
Pakubuwono II
Pakubuwono II, also known as Pakubuwana II, was a king of Mataram in central Java who reigned from 1726 to 1749 and moved the court from Kartasura to Surakarta in 1745.
Pakubuwono III
Pakubuwono III, also written Paku Buwana III or Pakubuwana III, was the second Susuhunan of Surakarta, reigning 1749 to 1788; his 1755 Giyanti Treaty divided Mataram with Yogyakarta.
Pakubuwono IV
Pakubuwono IV, also written Pakubuwana IV, was the third Susuhunan of Surakarta in Central Java, reigning from 1788 to 1820 and remembered for the Serat Wulangreh.
Pakubuwono IX
Pakubuwono IX (1830–1893) was the ninth Susuhunan of Surakarta, in Java, reigning from 1861 until his death; his reign saw extensive rebuilding of the Surakarta palace and a flowering of court literature.
Pakubuwono V
Pakubuwono V, personal name Raden Mas Sugandi, was the fourth Susuhunan of Surakarta in central Java, reigning from 1820 until his death in 1823, just before the Java War.
Pakubuwono VI
Pakubuwono VI, born Raden Mas Sapardan, was the fifth Susuhunan (monarch) of Surakarta in Java, ruling from 1823 to 1830, when the Dutch exiled him to Ambon during the Java War.
Pakubuwono X
Pakubuwono X (Paku Buwana X) was the tenth Susuhunan of Kasunanan Surakarta in central Java, reigning 1893 to 1939 and designated a National Hero of Indonesia.
Pakudha Kaccāyana
Pakudha Kaccāyana (पकुध कच्चायन) was an ancient Indian religious teacher counted in the Pali Canon as one of the six teachers contemporary with the Buddha, teaching seven eternal, uncreated substances.
Pakyong Airport
Pakyong Airport, also known as Gangtok Airport, is an airport in East Sikkim, India, inaugurated in 2018 as the state's first airport, about 33 km from Gangtok.