Define foreign? Does the Middle East count, what about Afghanistan?
Yeah I'd count the Middle East as foreign. Afghanistan not so much, because the concept of borders was quite different back then than it is today.
Pakistan has a long exhausting history of foreign invasions. The Mongols no doubt had the biggest impact, not necessarily racial though. South Asia is quite diverse in terms of y-dna haplotypes, R1a is prevalent in most Pakistan and some India. J2 which belongs to the semitic people of the Middle East is surprisingly non existent in Pakistan. Yet half of them claim to be of Arab descent. South Asia as a whole reflects a wide range of haplotypes.
I actually started a thread about these ridiculous claims, i.e. Pakistanis claiming Arab ancestry, but it was closed because I apparently attacked other member's views by calling them ridiculous. LOL
Mongols had the biggest impact on Pakistan? That's news to me. LOL
Yeah I'd count the Middle East as foreign. Afghanistan not so much, because the concept of borders was quite different back then than it is today.
I actually started a thread about these ridiculous claims, i.e. Pakistanis claiming Arab ancestry, but it was closed because I apparently attacked other member's views by calling them ridiculous. LOL
Mongols had the biggest impact on Pakistan? That's news to me. LOL
Yes, they did. Look into it. The term Mughal comes from Mongol. The Mongols who conquered Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India didn't come from Mongolia just in case you are wondering.
Yes, they did. Look into it. The term Mughal comes from Mongol. The Mongols who conquered Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India didn't come from Mongolia just in case you are wondering.
Not only didn't they come from Mongolia, but weren't Mongols either. The Farsi term Mughal is misleading because the Mughals were Central Asian TURKS. That's why their mother tongue was Turkish. (They accepted Farsi as the court language later though)
I think people who still have hangups about mixed marriages are few centuries too late. Modern human race started with 3 skin colors, White, Black and Yellow but now you find almost all shades and combination of those three colors. World is not more colorful but more beautiful.