Calm down guys. In every country there is a high school lollypop (mythical) history a bit sweetened, a bit nationalistic, and very wrong.
Then people grow up and start reading by themselves. Then they find out where are those lollypops hidden in the history books.
The younger the country, the more lollypops you would find. Thus India and Pakistan have a lot more lollypops compared to many older countries. Using this scale, Bangladesh is the youngest and that's why they have boat loads of lollypops.
Anyways this thread is about lollypops in Pak history. So here is a summary.
One of the sweetest and most colorful lollypop in Pak history is related to Islam. Even if the government and private organizations try to point out the fallacies in Islamic history, ordinary Pakistanis do not believe in any of those. And I am not talking about school kids. I am talking about 70+ years old educated Pakistanis who want to and force others to believe false Muslim history.
Lollypop regarding Tipu
Tipu Sultan was great general who got defeated due to a traitor courtesan. Sirajuddolah was a great general who got defeated thanks to a traitor Muslim
Verses like the following highlight and force the continuation of lollypops.
Jaffar uz Bengal, Sadiq uz Dakkan Nang e Milat nange din nang e watan
No objective analysis, no research, just blame it on two traitors and you are done. The reality was that British had superior tactics and a naval force. No one from Africa to India to China could stop the superior force and the enormous logistics. Tipu was just a local nawwab with limited resources. Ultimately the force with better resources won.
Mohammad Bid Qasim and Lollypop Let's go back to Mohammad bin Qasim for a moment. He is a "Muslim Hero", and for Hindus he is a vilain a bit lower than Ghori.
What was the reality? Why did Qasim attack Deebal? It really depends if you are reading Indian offical history or Pakistani official history.
Indians off course will term every Muslim invader as scum-bag Taliban. Whereas Pakistanis would treat him as the guy who brought light to the dark brown continent.
The reality is simple if you look at at in modern tussle of controlling waterways around the world. If Iran tries to block shipping in Gulf, the whole Western armada will pounce upon Iran.
The same thing happened with Dahir. He tried to block Hujjaj's shipping. The result was obvious. Hujjaj sent 2 military campaigns that were defeated by Dahir. The third time was a charm when Qasim attacked Deebal and conquered Sindh.
Now the biggest Lollypop in the history of the subcontinent
*Indians and Pakistanis fought for their freedom from British *
Funny that after that "freedom fight" was over, India had the same British Viceroy become Governor General.
Similarly Pakistan after that "freedom fight" had General Gracey the British become Commander of Pak Army.
The reality is that Indians and Pakistanis fought "with" each other and thus messed up badly. British were trying to handover the control since the WW I (or even before that time according to some historians)
How many of you Indians and Pakistanis know that Gandhi Ji was "official recruiter" for the British Army? None! hahahah! Shocking isn' it?
So guys Lollypops are everywhere. If you want to keep on sucking on them, that's your call!
Interesting view point. Cannot agree or disagree without more research on my part but still very interesting.