Have you ever wondered about your ancestry? Since childhood days, I was always curious about this subject. In fact, I grew up in an environment where we spoke a different language, wore different costumes, practiced different religion and had an entirely different cousine and looked a bit different from the rest of population and this made me always wonder why we were different. This long deep seated curiosity once drove me to visit a small village in the western part of India where my ancestors lived during nineteenth century. I wish I could find out more about my immediate ancestory.
Just recently I came across a website with an international project whose mission is to retrace the path taken by modern humans when they first left Africa around sixty to seventy thousand years ago. Mother nature has ensured that our ancestry remains embedded in our DNA code. The current path breaking technology is gradually unfolding this mystery of human migration to different parts of the world.
This revolutionary technology is based on two facts: The first fact is that we inherit our mitochondrial DNA code exclusively from the mother while DNA code of Y-chromosome always comes from the father. The second fact is that mitochondrial DNA experiences mutation at a fairly regular interval. These facts coupled with growing human DNA database helped modern geneticist to estimate that our ancestors first left Africa about seventy thousands years ago. The researchers have identified several genetic markers in these codes to establish individual ancestry.
I am soon going to send my own blood sample to participate in this project. If any of you are interested and can afford the cost then here is the web site below:
One final request: Even if you are not interested for the test, at least spread the message so that more and more people participate in this project and help grow the human database which is so crucial to uncover the mystery of human migration.
Pakistanis (Punjabis, Pathans, and Balochs) will find that after using the kit that their ancestry is mostly from Europe to Central Asia- Pakistani nose, skin tone and skull reflect that- largely caucasian ppl. Indians are mostly indigenous ppl found in Australia, Fiji etc. But a good post!
I recommend that all of you read Spencer Well's book. Bottom line is this: We are all descendents of tribes that left South Africa some 40+ thousand years ago -- I am quoting from memory and I could be wrong about exact figures. The tribe left in 2-3 waves and took different routes over different continents. First wave made it as far as South India and Australia, hence the similarities in features between Aussie Aborigines and South Indians. Subsequent waves went to Middle-East, East Europe (Chuc-chi - sp?) and then Europe.
Whether Pakistanis are descendents of Aryans or not, doesn't make a whit of difference since their ancestors had had left South Africa after the first wave.
However, it'd be interesting to traverse the migration pattern of your ancestors. Due to ease of international travel, people are moving further and in greater numbers greatly diminishing the chances of tracing ones migration pattern despite this scientific breakthrough. So, if you have the money, do it now for the future generations.
doesn't matter how much you guys all wanna be whiter or want people to call you spanish or italian or whatever, deep down we're all paki's. nothing can change that, now get off your high horse and do something productive. you're already born and you'll die one day. get over it.
doesn't matter how much you guys all wanna be whiter or want people to call you spanish or italian or whatever, deep down we're all paki's. nothing can change that, now get off your high horse and do something productive. you're already born and you'll die one day. get over it.
Pakistanis (Punjabis, Pathans, and Balochs) will find that after using the kit that their ancestry is mostly from Europe to Central Asia- Pakistani nose, skin tone and skull reflect that- largely caucasian ppl. Indians are mostly indigenous ppl found in Australia, Fiji etc. But a good post!
i think pakistanis, eager to claim caucasian genetics, are confusing migrations in the last 5000 yrs with migrations from over 200,000 years ago. once again proof that a little science is the idiot's best tool.
i think pakistanis, eager to claim caucasian genetics, are confusing migrations in the last 5000 yrs with migrations from over 200,000 years ago. once again proof that a little science is the idiot's best tool.
forget about science, Queer- similarities between a caucasian person and a person from say, North Punjab or Frontier province give enough clues to proof there must have been mass migrations from central asia and europe to present day Pakistan- of course I am not a fool to deny that the whites or caucasian stopped at Wagah border or something- some Indian punjabis also show some degree of caucasian features but thats pretty much it..and thats much less than Pakistani Punjabis. I haven't met or seen non-punjabi indian displaying any caucasian feature.
moin pai, if punjabis are white why do they look and speak like bhindians? when did they stop their italian diets and shift to indian-style foods? and why do the balochis refer to them as hindostanis?
i think pakistanis, eager to claim caucasian genetics, are confusing migrations in the last 5000 yrs with migrations from over 200,000 years ago. once again proof that a little science is the idiot's best tool.
Thats true... I mean, many of the tribes of Punjab are said to be of the Rajput tribes from my understanding. Some even specualte that the Pathans are of Rajput origin...
But anyways, most of this stuff is speculative, but most researchers discredit any notion that majority of Pakistanis are of foreign origin...
Although I wouldnt be surprised if we in Pakistan had a higher rate of the forein Haplo groups then those in India, simply because Pakistan has always been the first rest stop on every invaders journey into India...
