this just proves the Aryan invasion theory…
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The blonde hair wont last, everyone in my family had hair like that when his age but it always darkens as we get older for some reason.
The more north west you go in South Asia the more Caucasoid the people get, Kashmiri's are the lightest out of all South Asians followed by Punjabis from northern Punjab. I'd include Pashtuns too but the western half of Pakistan is Central Asia, not really South Asia geographically or ethnically. Pakistan in general is more Caucasoid than India or the other South Asian countries.
The Aryan invasion theory is true, the original inhabitants of South Asia were related to Austrailian aborginies, then came the Dravidians who merged with the locals, followed by the invading Aryans bringing their Vedic culture and eventually merging with the locals. Even the Brahmins mixed with the locals in most parts of India, it's only the few Brahmins from Kashmir and Northern Punjab who have a 'Pakistani' phenotype.
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My eldest daughter had blonde hair and blue eyes. Her hair has now darkened to a light brown. We have both Kashmiri and Pathan backgrounds. I thought the Pathan tribes go back to the Jews.
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Agree with smurf, most of our kids in North Punjab have light brown hair at young age, that turn black as they grow. But am not too sure about Aryan invasion theory.
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wow how pretty mashallah
it's such an interesting color and mix of features
:)
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**I agree, when I was young my hair was very light in colour but as I grew older it grew darker…
My pic when I was 3 and I have an Irani + kashmiri background:
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^^ Ap dhoop mein boht phirti hoon gii?
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To my knowledge, when Alexander passed through, he stopped in those areas and many soldiers stayed back, hence the caucasian traits in the Kailash and other tribes in the north
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The Greek theory on the origin of the Kailash has been proved by DNA tests to be false, some mixing might have occured as in other areas of Pak but the Kailash as a whole are not of Greek origin.
Alexanders soliders weren't the only white people to come to our part of the world, there was many other hordes before them who mixed with the locals.
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Some Jewish tribes did move to our regions when the King of Babylon invaded Jerusalem and destroyed Masjid al-Aqsa and they might have been absorbed into our people but the Pashtuns are still largely east-Iranian in stock and more related to the Ossetian, Kurdish and Persian etc. people than the Semites (Hebrews and Arabs).
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One of my sisters had a blondish hair when she was little....but it does darken and turns to brunette later on.
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One of my sisters had a blondish hair when she was little....but it does darken and turns to brunette later on.
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It changes, iv known many desis with blond hair, even whites, my mom is white and even her hair is dark brown now
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The blonde hair wont last, everyone in my family had hair like that when his age but it always darkens as we get older for some reason.
The more north west you go in South Asia the more Caucasoid the people get, Kashmiri's are the lightest out of all South Asians followed by Punjabis from northern Punjab. I'd include Pashtuns too but the western half of Pakistan is Central Asia, not really South Asia geographically or ethnically. Pakistan in general is more Caucasoid than India or the other South Asian countries.
The Aryan invasion theory is true, the original inhabitants of South Asia were related to Austrailian aborginies, then came the Dravidians who merged with the locals, followed by the invading Aryans bringing their Vedic culture and eventually merging with the locals. Even the Brahmins mixed with the locals in most parts of India, it's only the few Brahmins from Kashmir and Northern Punjab who have a 'Pakistani' phenotype.
Actually Afghanistan is considered South Asian, not Central or middle eastern, on every topic politically, genetically (11 million pasthus in India and 19 million in Pakistan) and pasthus are mainly mixed with balouch and then they got a few hazara and Tajiks that look Mongolian but still found in northern Pakistan and India in small numbers, geographically too (studied the old map, English folks like to include it with middle east ..etc ever since the war to group all Muslims together, but the accurate maps would always include Afghanistan with south Asia)...etc
If you look at the old race map the whole Indian subcontinent is labeled uncertain, including Pakistan and parts of Afghanistan, both African and Caucasian bones were found in south India and current day south Pakistan, their ancestors were both, but don't know which was first even till this day, and also the Pakistan region today was all Buddhists, some Hindu and some Sikh and minority were Muslims like in current day Lahore, before 1947 (before borders were built and before records were kept) they all fled because plans were made many hundreds of years before they fell through with it because Muslims and Hindus always wanted to separate, and Muslim minorities in Pakistan region(mainly Lahore) they recruited millions of Muslims from Central Indian cities by promising them free land and food, that how the numbers of Muslims arose during the partition to 85% from forty five percent Buddhist and around fifty percent Sikh and Hindu, because they didn't kept track of the migration before, The caste system existed in the Indian subcontinent when Hindu and Islam was introduced, So i think your wrong by saying majority mixed because they didn't and they still have a caste system, Muslims actually disposed of the caste system and allowed mixing more than Hindus because your Muslims first, that's why Pakistani looks are more blended while in India you can identify people from their caste , there's no such thing as a Pakistani phenotype, any Pakistani can pass as Indian, and any Indian as Pakistani, and i have plenty of dark Pakistani friends, that's why you could still find blue eyes even in South India because of the caste system like Aishwaryia, some upper caste migrated to south India but they didn't mix, there's many light skinned south Indian, the Africans (Dravidian and Australoid lived only near the bay areas (south Pakistan and South India) they were put in the slave trade to west indies and middle east only a few are left in the bay areas like Tamil or Sindhi, thats why both countries are considered Caucasian today and a few Brahmins and upper caste in India is comparing 1.5 billion people and its way more than few and its not just Brahmins but MANY other upper or semi-upper castes as well, thats more than Afghanistan and Pakistan put together times 3 or more and that's why one state in north India has more people than Pakistan and Afghanistan (first that's where native Pakistanis all fled, second they are the most successful states and drew more immigrants), so lets talk without degrading others and twisting history you don't know, and also i would like to point out different types of sun lights is what contributes to looks, 2/3rds of Afghanistan and Northern half of Pakistan and North half portion of India, south Tajikistan and Western tip of China is in the same category (the most north tip) one category is many miles long, south Pakistan and South India (with a little of Central India ) is the category just below that (and the sun light waves go from TOP to BOTTOM, not left to right silly), yes that rule is true(more north the more Caucasian)( but they fled because its talking about the natives and North India and Pakistan and 2/3rds of Afghanistan is in the same category of sun rays anyways (most northern tip of each country, even western tip, though that doesnt matter because the waves of sun light goes top to bottom as i mentioned not left to right)(looks)), so neither is more Caucasian geographically, and there were MANY invasion in the Indian subcontinent (almost every clan in the world had its marks on the Indian subcontinent), probably more you could count, the Aryan was the last known one with mass numbers and the last with history anyone knows of, and original Aryans were known for DARK features, even history books showed Aryans being with dark traits, the word Aryan was adopted by Celtic whites found in Europe, other Caucasians came before that little by little and mixed with Brahmins or upper caste, then Islam was introduced to other Hindus, they were more likely to mix with Arabs because Islam was introduced by them, rather than Europeans (like Brahmins) and then after British mixed a lot with Hindus and Anglo Indian were created, there's no such thing as a Pakistani phenotype, any Pakistani can pass as Indian, and any Indian as Pakistani, and i have plenty of dark Pakistani friends and seen light Hindus whether higher or lower caste, Your Muslim first, some Muslims still practice it, both countries were created randomly by the British and they fled before they were killed in the mix and i studied this in school. Today, very few are actually native Pakistanis, the only natives are the Kalash, Sikh and Hindu minorities that are still fleeing to India little by little, small amount of pasthus near the border, and also minority of Muslims that lived in Lahore.
i have desi family and they had blondish hair too but it was later dark (almost black), i also heard in foreign countries its malnutrition and temperature that brings on the color, even babies born with blond hair is because of the mothers nutrition, thats why its more brassy
Pasthus are not related to Kurds or Jews, east Iranian possibly but its more south Iranians, but they are a mixture of Balouch and south Iranians, who look like the people on that TV show "shahs of sunset" , they were never able to prove that Pasthus are related to Jews, and their DNA did not match
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to me all kashmiris look similar, they all have long and crooked nose 
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The blonde hair wont last, everyone in my family had hair like that when his age but it always darkens as we get older for some reason.
The more north west you go in South Asia the more Caucasoid the people get, Kashmiri's are the lightest out of all South Asians followed by Punjabis from northern Punjab. I'd include Pashtuns too but the western half of Pakistan is Central Asia, not really South Asia geographically or ethnically. Pakistan in general is more Caucasoid than India or the other South Asian countries.
The Aryan invasion theory is true, the original inhabitants of South Asia were related to Austrailian aborginies, then came the Dravidians who merged with the locals, followed by the invading Aryans bringing their Vedic culture and eventually merging with the locals. Even the Brahmins mixed with the locals in most parts of India, it's only the few Brahmins from Kashmir and Northern Punjab who have a 'Pakistani' phenotype.
I agree to an extent. Something bad did occur in prehistory, but I do not agree that there is a pakistani phenotype, separate and distinct from its neighbors. There's a continuum of diversity. My braderi is from Rawalpindi, so we are Potohari Rajputs, and we definitely show signs of admixture reminiscent of the diversity you may see in many african american or latin american countries. A few come out with blue eyes and blond hair (which generally darkens as they grow older), but many are also very dark skinned, by any standard, sometimes even within the same family. Most are somewhere in between, and I think this kind of diversity is common in the region and is probably a legacy of caucasoids invading south asia, and simultaneously decimating and merging with the native black/dark brown aboriginal population. IMO, a tragedy given the historic legacy of this event with the animosity still present in our cultures towards those with beautiful dark skin and the caste system, and its inhumane treatment of dalits. I am a brown skinned punjabi, potohari who is decidedly anti-aryan.