Pakistan through history.

[ghazi52]

Lesser Known Fact One of the earliest prominent people from modern Pakistan in the Islamic world was a man named Abu Mashar Al-Sindhi.

His Islamic knowledge would bring him from bondage to such heights that Caliph Harun Al-Rashid himself would lead his funeral.

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[ghazi52]

Members of the National Assembly offering "Dua" after passing of the Constitution on 10th April 1973...

 

[ghazi52]

Last standing moments of PM Liaquat Ali Khan, Company Bagh Rawalpindi, 16 October 1951.

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The pistol used by Said Akbar (son of Babrek, of Sparkhel Zadran, village Almara, Khost) to assassinate Pakistan’s first Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan in Company Bagh in Rawalpindi on Oct 16, 1951 with the FIR number....

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[ghazi52]

This is one of the first gramophone records of a national anthem, featuring one side of the national anthem and just music/melody on the other.
No company's name and record number is listed.
(2) National Anthem has been registered in Radio Pakistan records, according to this recording was done at BVS Parsi High School (Karachi).

Thanks to Fayyaz Ahmed Asher, Muhammad Noorullah, Aqeel Abbas Jafri

 

[ghazi52]

24th Feb 1960 was the last day of Karachi served as a Capital of Pakistan.
Karachi was the capital of Pakistan from 1947 to 1960.. Future capital site was named Islamabad, before being replaced by Rawalpindi and later by Islamabad.

 

[ghazi52]

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Pakistan Movement Procession going through Qissa Khwani Bazaar, Peshawar, April 1947....

 

[ghazi52]

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[Joe Shearer]

Battle of Hydaspes between Raja Porus & Alexander in 326 BC

Not correct.

There is interesting speculation in this regard, but the bulk of the evidence is still that Alexander and his soldiers won the battle.

Pakistan's history can be traced back to millions of years. 3 million years old tusks of extinct elephant family were found near Jhelum. 2.2 million years old stone tool was found at Rawat near Islamabad.

1 million years old extinct elephant family tusk was found near Gujrat.

These are nothing to do with history.

These are palaeozoology.

 

[Joe Shearer]

Herodutus (400 BC) said, land of Indos/Pakistan is a populous place having different cultures, ethnicities speaking different languages.

He also said, after River Indos (Indus) there is a desert & after that only 2 known tribes exist; one is cannibal & other roam nude in jungles.


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Look up the account of Megasthenes.

Don't forget to mention to your awed audience that Herodotus also attributed the rich revenues from the Indian provinces to the presence of ants that harvested gold and yielded it up to humans.

Or the accounts of the armies of the Nandas, that made Alexander's victorious troops mutiny, and refuse to cross over to the Doab.

Or the accounts of the Gangaridae, the Prasii and the Ichthyophagi.

Your account is seriously flawed.

In 644 AD Buddhist monk Xuanzang wrote, King Ashoka’s son was blinded by courtiers who were exiled & some moved to Khotan, China.

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In 1901, Aurel Stein found tablets in Takla Makan, China with same story written in Kharoshti script/Prakrit language spoken in Punjab & KP, Pakistan.


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What was the gap between Xuanzang and the Mauryas? 5 years? 10 years? a 100 years?

LOL.

Your account of Prakrit as a language spoken in the Punjab and in KP is entertaining. Do look up the differences between Shauraseni Prakrit and Magadhi Prakrit, and find out which was considered the superior.

Also look up the disconnect between Pashto and Prakrit. They had nothing to do with each other.

Excellent thread

wasn't aware Assyrian Empire invaded the subcontinent

It hadn't.

 

[Joe Shearer]

PC huns were here too? What...

These Huns may, or may not have been the Huns known to Europe. They were known as Hoon, and other than the similarity in name, there was little to guarantee an ethnic connection. Historians identify four groups, the Alchon, the Kidarite, the Ephthalites and the Nezak.

The ones in India - since they were present well outside the boundaries of present-day Pakistan, a wider title has to be sought - were the Alchons, or the Alkhons.

There is no archeological evidence of an Assyrian invasion, it is likely more legend than factual.

Everything on the supposed Assyrian invasion is based off of the works of Ctesias, a Greek historian under the employ of the Achaemenids. His works are the first Western source on the Indus Valley.

He describes an invasion of the Indus Valley by Semiramis, queen of the Assyrians. She is met by Stabrobates, King of Indos, who being faced with initial defeats feigned a retreat across the Indus. Semiramis, after eliminating Stabrobates's river fleet, then crosses the Indus in pursuit, only to be faced with a counter-attack after having only partially crossed the Indus. The result is a decisive victory for Stabrobates who then chases Semiramis all the way to Makran.

According to Diodorus, Queen Semiramis had her camels disguised as elephants to deceive and demoralize the Indos Army.

Here is a painting from the Pakistan Military Museum depicting an engagement between Stabrobates's war elephants and Semiramis's camels.

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Your interventions are such a pleasure to read.

There was no pakistan in 800 BC.

ITs a pity despite living in this city for ages ,I am yet to visit that museum.

Please lose no time and visit. Please take pictures, copious pictures. Only way this kaffir will get to see it.

Local?....Decide 2 Nation Theory or Son of Land???........If anyone born in current Pakistan land irrespective of religion..and if you own it...than there are thousands of more examples....including Chanakya, Bhagat Singh, Indian PMs Manmohan Singh, I K Gujral, writer Kushwant Singh, Actors Dev Anand, Raj Kapoor (and most of his family) etc and several other non-Muslims.....
Nalwa and Ranjit Singh mainly fought and won against Muslim rulers...Afhganis or born iand lived in Current Pakistan....If so, why don't you own them in your history books?

And if you consider locals as Muslims...then your reasoning is invalid...

I wouldn't waste time on these fanciful alternate histories, if I were you.

 

[Joe Shearer]

So to same length then, Chanakya, Chandragupt Maurya, Paouras, Bhagat Singh, Ranjit Singh, most of Sikh Gurus were not Pakistanis.....as they are not celebrated there?


Weak argument mate....Need to have a locus-standi on who we are... wandering identities to suit the situation are not the hall mark of a sovereign society.

 

[ghazi52]

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H.H. Mir Ahmad Yar Khan, The Khan of Kalat with Sir Norman Cater, A.G.G, Balochistan, and other officials on the occasion of his Coronation.
Year: 1933

Sibi Air strip

 

[ghazi52]

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Muslim refugees from East Punjab and the United Provinces climb atop trains at Amritsar Railway Station to head towards Lahore.
Year: 1947.

 

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[ghazi52]

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4th April 1959 ; A Historical Document
Courtesy : Arifa Shamsa