Re: From Meluhha To Pakistan: The Embodiment Of A Civilization
There were no pronounced linkages between the people of Indus Valley Civilization and the people of Ganges Valley and its adjoining planes. These two regions were geographically separated for thousands of years through Gurdaspur-Kathiawar salient which also acted as a watershed. Aitzaz Ahsan has also written about this salient in his book as well.
Robert Kaplan, the famous American geopolitical and geography expert also states about this unequivocally in his writings. He also states that these two regions were separated by the same salient and that the Indus Valley Civilization always remained a separate entity from the Ganges Valley for thousands of years. He also states that Pakistan is not an artificial creation and is the heir of Indus Valley Civilization and not India. There were only three occasions when IVC and Ganges valley were ruled as one political unit; during the Mauryan, Muslim and British era, and that is all.
All the links of IVC people were with the people of the west and not with the east, which came about when Muslims captured and created India.
These are facts supported by archeology, history, geology and genetics. That is why we the people of Pakistan are the true heirs of and scions of Indus Valley Civilization and not Indians and we also hold the cradle of this civilization.
If we consider that boundaries of Pakistan were not artificial creation and it all coincide with two nations theory, do the heirs included people of East Pakistan (BenglaDesh)?