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Nothing in common but in border sense they are Indian. Anyways, I have my ways of thinking, you have ur ways.
Look its true that Pakistani ethnic groups have little in common with Assamese Tamils and the rest of Indians.But so are upper cast north indians Vis-à-vis mojority of south indians or Assamese for that matter.Surely they are ethinically more in common with majority of pakistani(punjabi & sindhis) populace.
hell even good no of south indian Brahmins are some of the fairest
skined ppl in the sub continent while rest of the south indians tend to be brown.
The whole point of having an ethnic group like Punjabi is to define people who are similar, i.e people with the same culture, language and to some extent religion. 1200 years of Islam, and you are still trying to convince me that Punjabis and Sindhis couldn't possibly have any similarities with their neighbours to their west.
You cant make a group of ethnic groups. Its simply absurd. Now if you want to discuss similarities between Baluchis, Pathans and Punjabis on the other sides of the border, then go ahead. But Pakistan represents the majority of all the major ethnic groups shared with neighbouring countries. So you cant claim Pakistanis to be Indic, Iranic or Afghanic. It would be the other way around for those ethnic groups. This is not to say that I dont find grouping already existing ethnic groups ridiculous.