Political Militant Islam portal Islamistan (Persian: اسلامستان, romanized: Eslâmestân, pronounced [eslɒːmeˈst̪ʰɒːn]; lit.
"Islamland" or "the Land of Islam") is a Persian, Pashto and Urdu term referring to Dār al-Islām.
In Afghanistan during the Soviet–Afghan War, anti-Soviet factions came together to try to present a united front for the country.
[2] Daniel Pipes quotes Hafeez Malik of Villanova University, who writes that "Pakistanis have started to speculate that Pakistan's natural habitat includes Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and the Central Asian Republics."
Pipes then writes that "Sometimes called Islamistan, this region gets counterpoised against the Arabic-speaking south.