Basic introduction into Pakistan...

[Indus Pakistan]

Here is the both Punjabs within Pakistan and India. Helps to size up them relative within each country -

Punjab 50% of Pakistan
Punjab 2.5% of India.

 

[gangsta_rap]

Keep in mind that the term Punjabi is more of a linguistic group in Pakistan than a homogeneous ethnicity. it roughly constitutes to 50% of the Pakistani public but they are immensely diverse. You have people in south punjab who are affiliated with Sindhis and Baloch, up north there are people who have very strong roots in Kashmir.

 

[313ghazi]

North West.

No they did "split" anybody. As you even say they "conquered" dozens of states and instead of "splitting" them they united them. Yes united them.

Here is what South Asia would have looked like if British did not unite these entities, emirates, kingdoms, states etc.

50% of Pakistan is Punjabi
2.5 of India is Punjabi.

I think i did not make my point clearly. You are correct, the British came and took over control of all the territory that is now India and Pakistan. However they did so by setting up kingdoms to fight against each other, supporting traitors within kingdoms to overthrow anti British kings etc. It was truly divide and conquer.

They set about sharing resources and jobs along religious, ethnic and caste based lines to cause division.

Aha, thank you all for those posts above. That's precisely what I was asking about. So, can we say that Punjabi is major ethnicity in modern Pakistan?

And also, what is Urdu? Is Urdu the same as Punjabi language maybe?

Urdu and punjabi are not the same but share similar words and similar sentence/grammatical structure. All Pakistani languages are also written in the arabic script. funnily enough punjabi in India is written in the sanskrit script (i think). i think you could say urdu and punjabi are similar enough that speakers of either language would understand the other 75%.

 

[war&peace]

Here is the both Punjabs within Pakistan and India. Helps to size up them relative within each country -

Punjab 50% of Pakistan
Punjab 2.5% of India.

Don't post wrong map on PDF

 

[Imad.Khan]

Let me put it this way: I really don't know much about Pakistan. All I know is it is situated north of India and south of Afghanistan. Capital and largest city is Islamabad. Official language is Urdu. Dominant religion is Islam. From what I can tell for sure is existance of at least two provinces: Vaziristan which is somewhat most nationalistic part of Pakistan and Balochistan on the south which is somewhat rebel province inhabited with ethnic minority. And I know Pakistan is allied to China and on the hostilities with India over Kashmiere. Now, don't get me wrong but I would rather someone explain me about Pakistan from first hand than reading boring Wikipedia because first hand information is always more valuable.

I hope I am not boring here but my first question would be: What is actually Vaziristan? And who lives there: ethnic Pakistani people or they are some other ethnic minority?

Yes, this thread might be very banal, I am aware of that...

Maybe these videos will help, there are many more FTD videos but for now these will do

FTD facts about Pakistan Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YuLByAK4xM

FTD facts about Pakistan Part 2

FTD facts about Pakistan Part 3

FTD facts about Pakistan Part 4

FTD facts about Pakistan Part 5

FTD facts Best cities of Pakistan Part 1

FTD facts Best cities of Pakistan Part 2

 

[Indus Pakistan]

Don't post wrong map on PDF

What is wrong? Those both are the Punjabs as existing right now in both countries?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjab,_Pakistan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjab,_India



Punjab - Pakistan

Punjab - India

 

[war&peace]

What is wrong? Those both are the Punjabs as existing right now in both countries?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjab,_Pakistan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjab,_India



Punjab - Pakistan

Punjab - India

Now it's okay as IOJ&K is shown as the disputed area and but in your previous post it was shown as part of india ....A mistake we should never make.

 

[TMA]

On the other hand, are there Punjabi people who live in India? This all confuses me...because from my ignorance I always related Punjabi with India rather than Pakistan. I was actually so stupid that I always thought that Punjabi were important ethnic majority or minority in India. But now I understand it is quite the opposite...:facepalm:
(I hope you will forgive me for being such ignorant...

Look the real Indians are Pakistani. Thee word India comes from the river Indus. Now after the major partition of the fake colonial entity known as British India, the Indus river is in Pakistan.

In Persian and Arabic Indus is known as Hind and in Sanskrit as Sind.

The word Hindu used to be a geographic designation not a religious but the British persuaded the British Indians to make it such.

(North West Bharat can claim to be India but the rest not so much.)