Re: An educational thread on the differences between Pakistanis and neighbouring popu
Agreed. If all those things existed within the confines of India's current day borders, Pakistan has no claim to any of that history. Now leave Pakistan's history alone.
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Rig Veda written in Vedic Sanskrit, is the holiest book in Hinduism along with the 4 Vedas even today. "Hindu" as a word was invented by Persians, otherwise we can be termed as Vedic people.
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Not true. Hindu was invented by the Vedic Aryan term "Sindhu" which was the name they gave to the "Sapta Sindhu" or Indus River. In Persian the "s" becomes a "h" and so Hindu. The Greeks then say it differently which leads to the word "Ind" and then to India. So the name India actually refers to the region of the Indus River to give it its correct name, India would be the region of modern day Pakistan since this is what the Pakistani Vedic Aryans called it. The region known as India today was called things like "Gupta" or "Maratha Confederation", but never was it called India until the British forced the name onto the whole of the subcontinent.
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I agree that many temples, stupas, ancient sites etc. lie in the politically defined territory of today's Pakistan, but India and Indians have as much claim to it culturally and historically. Culturally, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan has nothing in common to its pre-Mohammad_bin_Qasim past, however it has only historical claim.
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Pakistan has no claim on Hinduism. You have all the claims for this. Pakistan does have a claim on Vedism, India does not. Pakistan does have a claim on the name India, India does not..oh the irony.