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Gujjars never claimed descent from Kushans or Yuezhi, they did not even know who these people were. It was the Victorian-era British that concocted these far-fetched theories. When they first began making significant contact with NW South Asia, they noticed the tribes of this region did not...

These are post-71. They were cheering on Indian troops as they entered Dhaka but migrated to Karachi in droves when the newly independent state could not economically sustain them.

The host was horrible, the Major seemed to have so many interesting stories but would always get cut off.

I would say that is true for the historical region of Afghanistan (Suleiman range and adjacent regions such as Kandahar) which is very different to the modern nation-state of Afghanistan which was the result of Barakzai conquests and the great game between Russia and the British. As a whole, we...

Invading forces were often successful regardless of the support of the local tribes, disparate tribes were of little match to actual organized armies but would still force invaders to spend considerable time and casualties trying to subjugate them. The primary motivation for siding with...

Many invading armies were indeed actually defeated, it's just that while the defending party may have been able to win some battles, they would often ultimately lose the war.

Invading armies first had to subjugate the various hill forts and tribes that inhabited the Safed Koh range before moving onto Pothohar (North Punjab), but mostly avoided entering the plateau. Over time, the tribes along this route began to become more geopolitically aware and pragmatic, often...

There was never really an "Indian identity" until the British created it. Also the Khyber pass was not seen as a border. The regions of East Afghanistan were ethno-culturally linked with the regions across the Khyber Pass.

Iranian Neolithic Farmers does not equate to modern Iranians. Aryans were not BMAC and BMAC was not Iranic. Iranic does not equate to modern-day Iran or Iranian. "Iranic" is a linguistic category. Scythians were genetically very distant to modern-day Iranians. Genetic admixture of...

Under what metrics does Iran have a superior ballistic missile program than Pakistan?

How are they "Persianized"?

That's actually not true, I have written about this before on another platform when someone claimed that modern-day Pakistan was Hindu around the advent of Islam. Here are some excerpts where I went over each province.

That's not true, all Pakistani ethnic groups share some genetic admixture with Indians. However, that is normal between neighboring groups, even Tajiks share some genetic admixture with Indians. To say that there is 0 commonality is false. I'm not sure what you mean by "Persianized tribes" but...

That's not how it works. There are Pashtuns/descendants of Pashtuns in India, however, that does not mean that "50% of Afghanistan shares racial similarity with India". Likewise, Punjabis being present in both India and Pakistan does not mean that 40-50% of Pakistan "has racial similarity" with...

They're largely from Punjab/NW India where the population enjoys disproportionate representation within the Indian military.

Taliban did condemn TTP on the APS attack.

From their tone and what they're saying, it's just friendly banter.

Taliban did not exist during the Soviet war.

TTP fought alongside with the Taliban against NATO forces, especially after many of them fled into Afghanistan following OP Zarb e Azb. Many of them were taken prisoner by the Kabul regime.