Michael Quinion has an observant note up about a language phenom I hadn't noticed before --"Afpak," as shorthand for "Afghanistan/Pakistan," so as to highlight the fact that "they" are a single theatre of operations (but don't call it an "acronym").
He might have added that, by one account, "Pakistan" is itself an acronym: so here, though I believe this is disputed.
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