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  1. Talwar e Pakistan

    Failure of India to Resist the Turkic Conquests

    Modern-day Pakistan at the advent of Islam was predominantly Buddhist Invaders predominantly settled the Delhi/Hindustan (modern-day UP) region not modern-day Pakistan. The one relevant attempt at setting up foreign settlements in modern-day Pakistan under Muslim rule was by the Umayyads...
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    Failure of India to Resist the Turkic Conquests

    Having Khan as your surname does not denote Pashtun descent. North Punjabis began to adopt 'Khan' as a title around the same time as Pashtuns did. This is especially true for Zamindar clans.
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    Failure of India to Resist the Turkic Conquests

    What is now modern-day Pakistan was comprised of warring city states, petty kingdoms and tribes. Even what is now Punjab was largely comprised of pastoralist tribes and a few major cities, it wasn't until the British built the irrigation system in Punjab that the region saw a massive...
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    Failure of India to Resist the Turkic Conquests

    That's a nonsense misconception. Heart of Turkic and "Indo-Islamic" rule was in North India/Delhi region. We are horrible at soft-power and perception management. Our unique cultural elements are either attributed to Afghanistan or India.
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    Indian clothing before Islamic invasions

    Could you elaborate on this?
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    Indian clothing before Islamic invasions

    The first depiction of tunics in the region comes from the Indus Valley Civilization: They were "present" but definitely not prevalent, the depictions of people in pre-Islamic Indian art are overwhelmingly without stitched upper garments. The few rare depictions of stitched upper garments...
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    Indian clothing before Islamic invasions

    It depended exactly on which region of modern-day India and at what period. However, clothing typically was very minimal, similar to pre-European Mesoamerica, and was optimized for the hot and humid clime of India. Both men and women were often shirtless with various forms of waist-wraps as the...
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    "Metal and magnet : A few things I know about Jam Saqi from my time with him"

    Jam is an honorary title; similar to "Sardar", "Rana" or "Choudary" used in Sindh and Balochistan that began to be incorporated into names.
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    Indian jawans like to play Simon says in front of PLA

    Likely a Sikh soldier with his turban removed.
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    Kashmiri students attacked in punjab by bihar and UP students after india pak match

    The students that attacked them were Biharis and the students that intervened and saved them were Punjabi.
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    Afghans throng Torkham to enter Pakistan

    Please go and liberate your brethren and leave us be, spare us of your nonsense.
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    Featured Pakistan: The Archaeological Marvel

    The city was destroyed by Mahmud Ghaznavi
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    Old Punjab

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    Iran to help Armenia finish transit road that bypasses Azerbaijan

    How is Azerbaijan an Islamic nation? You do realize that a large portion of the Azerbaijan-Iran tensions is due to strong Azerbaijan ties with Israel, right?
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    Pakistan's Identity Crisis: Can it explain itself without India?

    Bārhaspatya was never a part of the Rigveda and this is a fabricated verse.
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    Pakistan's Identity Crisis: Can it explain itself without India?

    The history that the Indus region and the Gangetic region share is common between nearly all neighboring regions, it does not negate civilizational distinction.
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    Pakistan's Identity Crisis: Can it explain itself without India?

    Pakistan was founded on three grounds as explained here by the person that conceived the idea of Pakistan. "I am enclosing herewith an appeal on behalf of the thirty million Muslims of PAKSTAN, who live in the five Northern Units of India—Punjab, North-West Frontier (Afghan) Province, Kashmir...
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    Pakistan's Identity Crisis: Can it explain itself without India?

    I'm not sure what point you're trying to make with this statement? Whether 3-4% of the Indus flows through China and disputed territory is irrelevant. Civilization is derived from geography. Ideology comes and goes.
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