Multan, Pakistan, a city in the province of Punjab. The city is noted for handicrafts, especially pottery and enamel work. Cotton textiles are also made in Multan, which lies in the country’s most productive cotton-growing district. Multan is an important trading center and road and rail junction. Dating back more than... 

Pakistan, or Islamic Republic of Pakistan, a country in southern Asia. It was created in 1947 by the partition of British India into India and Pakistan and consisted originally of two parts—East Pakistan on the eastern side of India and West Pakistan on the west. Between them lay more than 900 miles (1,450 km) of Indian territory....