Pakistan

Getting a late start on stitching today.  Spent the morning and afternoon finalizing and printing the design for next month's handkerchiefs.  I can't believe that December is only 6 hours away.  

I've been stewing over the news articles from this morning, racking my brain to figure out what today's design should be.  There were two articles on the Mumbai attacks, specifically about the increasing tension on the already tenuous relationship between Pakistan and India.  I ran across this interesting tidbit on the etymology of "Pakistan" on the BBC website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/south_asia/2002/india_pakistan/timeline/1947.stm

"The name was formulated from: P for Punjab, A for the Afghanis of the north-west frontier, K for Kashmir, S for Sind and Tan denoting Baluchistan. The word also means land of the pure in Urdu."