Re: Did Muslims and Islam bring civilisation to India?
In Pakistan they teach them all this nonesense in Social Studies about how they are all Central Asian and Middle Eastern who came to rule the South Asian Indians when in reality everyone knows deep down that all of South Asia including Pakistan and India share pretty much the same history.
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The only people of central asian or middle eastern descent are Pashtuns, Balochis and the the people of the Northern Areas.
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Yes the Pashtuns and Balochs are Central Asian whilst the rest of Pakistan is definately South Asian, but I wouldn't say we are Middle Eastern because Middle East is West Asia who are Semites and North Africa who are Berbers, we are neither Semites nor Berbers, we've more simialrities with Persians, Kurds, Ossettians and all that.
People are surprised when I tell them I am Pakistani because they think I am a Kurdish assylum seeker or an Iranian or something, if the majority of Pakistanis were Central Asian people would know they look Central Asian, just go to Alum Rock or Bradford Pakis look indistinguishable from Indians espeially from Sikhs.