Another attempt at NWFP name change..

[Chel_Chabila_Babu]

Re: Another attempt at NWFP name change..

@PaKpatriot1

So, its not about culture, its about ethnicity. Punjabis have a huge influence from India, ethinically and culturally, but that doesnt mean we are Indian. We also have genetic lines from Central Asia and Iran and Middle East. Even Indian culture you know is influenced by Iran and Central Asia. The Mughals were Central Asian you might recall. Akbar spoke Farsi!
Pasthuns to have alot of cultural influnces from India to. Afghanistan was once the center of Buddhism. This whole region, from India to Iran to Afghanistan have always been cuturally integrated, influencing each other heavily. You cant be so close to India without getting burned by it. And by the way, what wrong with having Indian culture?
You wrong if you think that Pashtuns are not influenced by India or vice versa. Pashtuns may not have been influneced as strongly, but that more due to the fact that they were always so independant and always at the edge of India instead of at the heart of it as Punjab was.

Wake up, it’s over now..

Except for the Hazara people, the other ethnic groups of Afghanistan and NWFP-Baluchistan all have racial, cultural and linguistic similarities, they are far removed from most people on the eastern side of the river Indus in so many ways, they are related but it was so far back it’s negligible and now they are pretty different racially, culturally and linguistically.

Years ago the partailly Aryan descended ethnic groups of eastern Pakistan and northern Indian did come from Central Asia but they mixed with the natives and it was too long ago to matter.

Today the eastern side of Pakistan is Indian (which is a broad umbrella of different ethnicities), the western side of the Pakistan is more Central Asian, they go under the umbrella of Iranian (not specifically the present-day Persian country Iran)… Oh and by the way can we extend the border a few miles east of the Indus pleez?

Oh and Mughals??? They treated Punjabis like crap, they didn’t even acknowledge them. They recruited Turks, Pukhtoons and Persians into their army and gave them goverment posts but not Punjabis..

About 5% of the genes in Punjabi people might be different from on Indian side but overall they’re the same. In fact we often mistake Sikhs for Muslims. Punjabi, Gujurati, Bengali, Hindi, Marathi are all related a lot more closely then they are to ethnicities on the western side of the Indus…

Quaid-e-‘Azam’ must have had some ulterior motives when creating Pakistan, most Pakis are no different from Indians, he contrasted Urdu culture (pretending it was Muslim culture) with Hindi culture (pretending it was synonomous to Hindu culture) and said we’re different when even in these two cultures the similarities are greater than differences.. In other ethnic groups the differences are even less my Gujarati friends always talk to Hindus in their own language, they have similar Garba (sp?) and food at parties, I know a migrant Indian Hindu Sindhi who still loves his language and goes to events arranged by Paki Muslims, Punjabis from Pak are suddenly feeling this affinity with their ethnic group across the border..