Yes I have heard this however I meant as a state. The word Pakistan is older than 1947 but Pakistan came into being in 1947. True the difference is only like 15 years or so but you get my point.
I am being a tad sarcastic....as you know many Afghan Afghan claim that Afghanistan is 5000 years old....it must be a shock to the Afghan nationalists that they are only about 200 years or so old....many of them live in that dream of when they had an empire.....
Well they have had a traumatic experience....their 5000 year history turns out to be about 200 years of so and most of their empire crumbled in even less than that....what can you expect?
Yeah maybe you are right, but the Afghan Afghans see him as their hero and national poet.
He talked about uniting the Afghans and this was before the Hotaks and Durrani Empires managed to do this albeit for a short period of time....
But before their spread of "Islamic conquests", they actually rebelled against other Muslims empires in the first place....and incidentally a co-terminous Pakistani actually "paved" the way for the Hotaks and Durrani Empires to do so
True Afghans (Pukhtoons) are the largest group, but let us be generous and say they make up 50%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Afghanistan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Afghanistan
Whilst they are the largest ethnic group and Afghanistan is named after them...
Pakistan need not fight an American Jihad in order to get FATA. This was Pakistan's own problem...and it took terrorism for Pakistan to realise this......
Oh but we have sell outs...that is the perennial issue of Pakistan....did you not know.....???
Many countries don't recognise the vote by majority of the Crimeans to join Russian Federation in response to the illegal coup in Kiev. But they are wilfully blind to the illegal coup in Kiev and they are wilfully blind that the Parliament of Crimea voted on this decision.
But it does not...
And Pakistan has not extracted nowhere near enough from them in compensation for the misery this war has caused....nowhere enough thanks to Musharaf and after him....
You are right it is not that simple so a bit of revision: In Kiev there was an illegal coup. Some say covertly supported by NATO. But you don't have to accept this. But you do accept that there was an illegal coup? Now in response to this, the people of Crimea who did not like this illegal coup...
Of course many Mexican and Americans have Spanish roots but does this mean California and Mexico and Texas ought to be governed by Madrid???
So Crimea belonged to Eastern Roman Empire, then Rus Empire, then this Turkic empire and then Ottoman, then Imperial Russia, then USSR and then Ukraine and...