Historical fallacy on your part. You have all the resources in front of you, yet you still deny the truth.That's the case with most Indians. You like to skew history when it benefits your argument. Let's view history with a singular lense.
There is nothing cowardly about accepting Islam. Whether late or early, we are thankful for the message spreading to us. Pakistan today has the most elite warriors always engaged in war. We are not not pathetic and docile people like Indians.
Sufis spread Islam within the subcontinent. It was not spread by the sword like you Islamo-phobes believe, otherwise you Hindus would not exsist.
What exactly did the Punjabi Muslim do? Invaders who got past Peshawar could then only be stopped at Karnal or Panipat because they went through Punjab undisturbed. It is true that the armies of both Nadir Shah and Ahmed Shah Abdali were harassed in Punjab on their return with Mughal booty, but their attackers were Sikhs, not Muslims. Punjab was a quiet state. Punjabi Muslims neither rebelled against Mughal Delhi nor fought any invader whether Afghan or Persian. Was this because the Punjabi did not want to fight other Muslims? Not really, because he did not even resist being conquered easily by Sikhs.
It is the Englishman who 150 years ago gave the Punjabi Muslim a rifle and taught him how to use it. But this did not require any martial background. The British Bengal army was full of UP Brahmins (like Mangal Pandey). It is only after this formation of the modern regiments, that Punjabi Muslims are called martial by writers like GF MacMunn. After the English left, the record of Punjabi Muslims at war under their own generals is not sterling. I count one draw and one loss and Im being charitable. Against the Pashtun Talib the record is not encouraging, despite the thousands of martyrs. Nadir Shah said of Indian Muslims after the battle of Karnal that they know how to die, but not how to fight.
Is the Pakistan army martial? – The Express TribuneAre Punjabi Muslims martial? Do they have a history of war and conquest or at least of resistance to conquest? I ask because theres no evidence of their martial character in our history. No general, no subedar, no thanedar, no wazir, no bakhshi of the Mughal empire was a Punjabi Muslim so far as I know.
So much for elite warriors.
And on the Pakistani Punjabi Character,lets see what the afghans, have to say:
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First, the Pakistani Punjabis. You know how these guys always try to project an image of the Hindu ("brahmin/bania") as treacherous, cowardly, cunning, wily, evil... mooh pey ram ram, bagal mey chhuri etc. Well, in reality, that is exactly what the Pakistani Punjabis themselves are like. They are survivors who will act tough but readily bend over for any stronger force at any time(US, China etc). Meanwhile they will scheme to restore their supremacy via taqqiya at a later date.
While transferring this image (truly representative of themselves) onto the Hindu, the Pakistani Punjabis have created a mythology around themselves as the true guardians of Islamic purity/empire/strat-depth etc.
Of Pashtuns and Pakistani(Muslims) Punjabis
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Now what a Baloch has to say on Pakistani Punjabis:
Yes, and the Punjabis are like that because they, like the Brahmans et el are also of Hindu origin and culture which they all are so desperate to deny. As for these stereotypes, the Punjabis (historically known simply as Hindus, Jats and so on by Middle Eastern and Central Asian travellers, poets, court chroniclers etc during the Middle Ages up until the British era) were the ones who were being ridiculed by their conquerors as being all the above!
Interesting then that these ***** now try to project these historical stereotypes onto Hindu-Indians, when historically Hindu was a catch-all ethno-cultural label for all subcontinental people, particularly for those Indians living in closer proximity to the subcontinents border with the Iranian and Afghan worlds. Thus all the negative stereotypes applied to Hindus throughout the ages apply as equally to these '*****' as they do to modern Hindu-Indians!
See, it is the Punjabis that, historically, were the servant and were contemptible to both their conquerors and within their own Hindu civilization, whether that contempt came by virtue of existing at the bottom of the Hindu caste system or due to their abhorrence in the eyes of their Islamic conquerors. This explains their deep rooted inferiority complex, meekness yet passive aggressiveness and hollow sense of superiority. All typical Punjabi personality traits.
Of Pashtuns and Pakistani(Muslims) Punjabis
Like I said before the Afghans,Iranians,Baloch,Sikhs laugh at the Pakistani Punjabi Bravado. Look at what they call you hindko.