Pakistanis have nothing to do with India.
Its only Indians dream that we have anything to do with them.
Right.
That's why Indians waste hours and hours printing misleading graphs and charts proving this. No numskull Indian reproduced a graph that shows Hindustani and Gangetic people separately, or Bengalis apart from both of these, or the dozen pieces of sublime nonsense on display.
The categories seem to be linguistic. Speaking the same language does not translate into having the same ethnicity. That is the cardinal mistake of British scholars and primitive, pre-scientific ethnographers, and that is how the myth of the Aryan Race was born. Punjabi speakers, for instance, might have more than one ethnicity; how is the genetic composition of a mixed ethnic group any kind of indicator? If there was any value to this, speakers of a Dravidian language such as Brahui should be close to the Dravidian speakers elsewhere. More: we have the Dravidian speakers, supposedly pushed gradually to the south as the Indo-Aryan languages spread across northern India, with more European in their composition than the north Indian, whose language came from outside by the most accepted scholarly thinking at present; we are always free, of course, to join the school of the OOI, the Out Of India, theoreticians with no academic backing but those of curiously bizarre Europeans and Americans who specialise in denigrating the Muslim and glorifying the Hindu.
There are several other issues that emerge. What is the European category here? It is represented as an amalgam of European and West Asian, in terms of linguistics, a combination of that which cannot be combined, of Indo-European languages, descended from PIE like north Indian languages, with Semitic languages. What sort of dog- and cat-group combination is this? That raises several associated questions: did this combined Indo-European + Semitic language speaking group possess a genetic proximity? Is it a larger ethnic group, actually, different from any other in east or west, in India or in Europe? Were they then the builders of the Indus Valley Civilisation, and, if so, why is their genetic trace so weak at the extreme ends, in the upper reaches of the Ganges-Yamuna combined river valleys, or down deep into Gujarat?
If we continue to direct a sceptical gaze at this collection of coloured daubs, we can find a lot to ask ourselves, but honestly, this is a pure waste of time, due entirely to the relentless but hitherto unsuccessful efforts of sections of our friends and neighbours to prove that they had, have at present, and will have nothing in common with us.
This thread is ultimately silly, and should never have started.
