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This is all very fascinating, thank you for sharing. Initially I had believed that migration of Indo-Aryans into the GGC area was a very gradual process that may have continued into 1000 BCE as archeological finds have suggested local cultural continuity to a degree that would have been...

Indian Muslims follow Indian culture and they are genetically identical to their non-Muslim counterparts. The only thing we share is religion.

An interesting excerpt from the British era that I found in my files:

Very interesting and probable theories. Though, if you could elaborate on this; I was not sure what you meant here:

I should have elaborated further. The Sapta Sindhava ("Seven Rivers") is a region described in the Rigveda and Zend Avesta. It comprises of the Sarasvati, the Indus and it's five tributaries. To the early Indo-Aryans, the 'Sarasvati' was most likely the Helmand river. The Avestan term for the...

Pandavas were a mythical group of five brothers. They were not a people. The well being associated with the Pandavas is likely a recent concoction.

Bengalis in Pakistan that have not yet been given citizenship are post 1971 migrants.

One of my projects where we utilized AI to create a photorealistic face of a man from a Gandharan sculpture: Inspired by this project: https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a34209169/real-faces-of-roman-emperors/

No not at all. I appreciate your wisdom and loved your presentation. I am glad to have found another member whose love for history has not been tainted by nationalism. I am very excited for our further correspondence and look forward to learning from each other.

Look into the Gandhara grave culture. It's an amalgamation of Indo-Iranian migrations and IVC continuity. Looking forward to it.

Early Indo-Aryans were iconoclastic. Apart from primitive figurines, there wasn't much artistic output from the early Indo-Aryans. The introduction of Hellenic culture into the region would break that taboo; creating a set of unique art forms that would define Gandharan and Indo-Greek art...

This is a better map, also shows Hindush province: There was no concept of "Indian provinces" to the Achaemenids. "India" to them was the lower Indus Valley. The region was called Hapta Həndu, related to the Indo-Aryan Sapta Sindhava (Seven rivers), the land between the Helmand and Beas...

The Kashmir dispute must be resolved, the most reasonable solution is a referendum.

Both "Turkic" and "Iranic" are terms which each strictly denote a linguistic family. Members of neither linguistic families are genetically monolithic. The genetic distance between an "Iranic" Tajik and an "Iranic" Iranian from Fars is greater than that between a Portuguese and a Greek...

The Jatts were a pastoralist tribe centered in the lower Indus Valley that began migrating Northwards beginning in the 8th-9th centuries.

It's not that merely that "Gandharan DNA was found among Yusufzai" rather Yusufzai are genetically extremely close to ancient Gandharan samples found from Barikot. For example, the genetic distance between the Barikot_IA and Yusufzai sample groups is around 0.026, to put that into perspective...

Hapta Hindava is not solely Punjab. It is the equivalent of the Sanskrit "Sapta Sindhava"; "Seven Rivers" and encompasses the lands between the Helmand and Beas rivers.

Initial descriptions of Sindh by British diplomats and travelers from the 1800's when Sindh was still independent. Physical description of Sindhi and Baloch locals during the early British occupation.