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Pakistan Ancestory.....is till 1946, before that there were no Pakistani or Pakistan. So this is one point you will have to bear with.
The only way out can be if you could prove your lineage if by finding how or at what time of life Islam made its presence in your life.
Of course now that you have become an independent country, the dillemma would be, tobe out of the clutches of India, so the need arose to take on an new Identity. So what better place than the Muslim world..Iran, Iraq, etc Etc and OIC nations. Now to put a new identity, most Pakistanis are trying hard to somehow be one with Persians, Arabs ets. but the sad part is not much of incouragement from the other side.
Still I know its quite embarrasing to be without History, but instead of trying to find history amongst nonrelated sects, who will give you only discouragement, try it from your actual roots.
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Finnaly Ancient Pakistani concept holds no water.
Everyone has history. You can only be "without history" if you dont know your history (seems Indians dont or they would know what was happening in India 5000 years ago instead of looking towards the Indus). Pakistanis know their history, from the Indus Valley civilisation, Gandhara kingdom to the Islamic kingdoms and all the way to the Pakistan movement. This is our history because it belongs to our people. We are not claiming to be Arabs, Persians or Indians when we just clarified our identity as belonging to the Indus Valley and not Arabia, Persia or India.
Its also worth noting that only Indian members are obsessing about the misunderstood MbQ version when most Pakistanis here accept IVC as being part of their identity. The important thing is that furious denials by Indians dont matter in the slightest to us. We know our history, identity, culture and religion very well, so we dont have to look across to neighbours.
"We are a nation with our distinctive culture and civilization, language and literature, art and architecture, name and nomenclature, sense of values and proportion. Legal laws and moral codes, customs and calendar, history and traditions, aptitude and ambitions; in short, we have our own distinctive outlook on life and of life." -Quaid-e-Azam