Pakistan's great history

[roadrunner]

Re: Pakistan’s great history

@I'm Kool

According to roadrunner’s argument, everything that happened within the current political boundries of Pakistan should be considered the history of Pakistanis. If that is the case, than what do you do with the Indus Valley civilization? It stretched all the way into the current boundries of India as well (see: Lothal).

Good stuff, I’m glad you brought this up. Look at the map below. Some sites of the Indus Valley Civilization extend into Afghanistan also. Does this make the Indus Valley Civilization an Afghanistani civilization. The answer is no. The reason is that only a handful of sites existed in Afghanistan. In the same way you can see that about a third of the sites were in India and about two thirds were in Pakistan. So what does this make the Indus Valley Civilization. Clearly it’s a Pakistani civilization, with parts in Afghanistan and India.

Who determines what was an important settlement and what wasn’t? ho decides what country should keep the history of those people? I see some major flaws with the argument that Indians should detach themselves from any historical events that occured within the boundries of Pakistan. If tommorow India and Pakistan become a single country, would Indians magically gain so much history? Your argument is based on current political boundries. If history has taught us anything, its that in the greater scheme of things, boundries are pretty insignificant.

Wait a sec. You’re getting this mixed up. Indians do claim the Indus Valley Civilization, the Kushan Empire, the Hunnic Empires, the Aryan rule as part of their own history. This is not true, these were Pakistani based Empires (for technicality sake, these were Empires that were created and staffed by ancestors of Pakistani people, not Indian people). Currently, all Pakistani Empires, are called Indian, so if the two combined, India wouldnt gain anything anyway. Pakistanis should know their own history, and call a Pakistani historical Empire, one belonging to the ancestors of Pakistani people, rather than the Indian people.

I agree with Man with a Plan. The “History of the people of Pakistan” is a sub-category in the main category of the “History of the Sub-continent”.

I disagree. This is what Indians would like to hear. Reason is they can claim that Pakistan should not have seperated from India. Pakistan must develop its own image, identity to shrug off the Indian propaganda that India and Pakistan are culturally and historically the same.