Re: History of Pakistan
Kharoshti was used in Gandhara and Afghanistan . But it was not the only script. The sister script which was Brahmi was more indigenous to the subcontinent. All of Ashoka’s edicts all over the subcontinent including Gandhara were in Brahmi script. Some historians speculate that Brahmi was a purely indigenous development with the Indus script as a predecessor. It was used all over India and Pakistan. Brahmi script was found as far as Sri Lanka and a broken storage jar with inscriptions in Tamil Brahmi script was found in Quseir-al-Qadim,Egypt dating back to 1st century BCE. Two earlier Tamil Brahmi inscriptions were discoveries at the same site. The inscriped text is "பானை ஒறி” (paanai oRi) which means ‘pot suspended in a rope net’. So Brahmi script was widely understood in the ancient world. It was Brahmi script which later gave rise to Gupta script which was prevalent in Punjab region, the Sharda script of Sindh and Kashmir and the nagari script of Northl India.