ilkhanate contained pakistan
perhaps the greatest contribution of the sultanate was its temporary success in insulating south asia from the mongol invasion from central asia in the 13th century nonetheless the sultans eventually lost western pakistan to the mongols see the ilkhanate dynasty
 after coining the name of the nationstate ali noticed that there is an acronym formed from the names of the homelands of muslims in northwest indiap for punjaba for afghania now known as khyber pakhtunkhwak for kashmirs for sindhtan for balochistan thus forming pakistan