This is exactly what I thought. Owning the past does not make us less Muslim then Egyptians, Turks, Iranians owning their past makes them any less Muslim. Our issue is not about Islam althought that will be cited.
The reasons are deeper. If I was a migrant from Bihar to Pakistan I would be alarmed if Ahmad Shah Abdali is touted, if I was a Lucknawi migrant I would be alarmed if Porus was peddled, if I was a Bhopali migrant living in Karachi I would be alarmed if Talpurs are celebrated. Instead I would cry "Islam under threat".
This is why such things are not possible in Pakistan and the country will remain a identitless begger tring to be a Turk one day, a Arab the next and then falling back on desi Muslim Bollywood variety.
*Sigh*
A minority in Pakistan with serious identity crisis born from being severed from their native lands because of the 1947 migration has castrated the identities of the 96% majority natives of Pakistan. That is sad fact. Watch how this statement is going to draw fire from the usual quarters with demands to ban me.
But fact is fact. Even if unsavoury.