Pakistanis in the Netherlands formed a population of 35,000 individuals , according to the statistics of Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

's Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Pakistan)

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also known as Foreign Ministry, is a Government of Pakistan's federal and executive Ministry which is responsible for international and Foreign Affairs. The ministry was created in 1947, and was one of the first ministries to be established...

. However, the figures of the Netherlands' Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek showed only 17,990 persons of Pakistani origin (persons born in Pakistan or with at least one parent born there) that year. Their most updated provisional figures for 2009 showed 18,638 persons of Pakistani origin, little increase from the 2004 number. In 2010, there were 19,091 Pakistanis in the Netherlands.

Notable people

• Mudassar Bukhari
  Mudassar Bukhari
  Mudassar Bukhari is a Pakistani-born Dutch One Day International cricketer. He is a bowling allrounder who is often used as a pinch hitter....
  
   - cricketer
• Mohammad Kashif
  Mohammad Kashif
  Mohammad Kashif Hussain is a Dutch cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a slow left-arm bowler. He made his debut for the Dutch cricket team in an ICC Intercontinental Cup game against Kenya on 29 March 2006. He has also played two One Day Internationals for the Netherlands, his debut...
  
   - cricketer
• Asim Khan
  Asim Khan
  Asim Khan is a former Dutch cricket player. He played 51 times for The Netherlands between 1994 and 2002, including two ICC Trophy tournaments in 1997 and 2001. In the first of those two tournaments he took 7/9 against East & Central Africa, which remains the best bowling figures by a Dutch player...
  
   - cricketer
• Imran Khan
  Imran Khan (singer)
  Imran Khan is a Dutch-born Punjabi singer of Pakistani origin who gained success after the release of his first single "Ni Nachleh" in 2007. His debut album Unforgettable was released on 27 July 2009.-Biography:...
  
   - singer and musician
• Adeel Raja
  Adeel Raja
  Mohammad Adeel Khalid Raja is a Pakistan-born Dutch cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler. He has occasionally opened the batting for the Dutch team, even though he currently holds a first class average of a mere 12.-References:...
  
   - cricketer
• Ehsan Sehgal
  Ehsan Sehgal
  Ehsan Sehgal , born Khawaja Ehsan Elahi Sehgal on November 15, 1951, is a Pakistani Urdu poet and writer who has lived in the Netherlands since 1978...
  
  - Urdu journalist