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  1. xairhossi

    Why is great philosopher Kautilya not part of Pakistan’s historical consciousness?

    It's not that they don't consider themselves Pashtuns, but that they said that they were descendants of Alexander's army and still considered themselves Pashtuns. Some Dardics like Kalash claim such descent as well, but that's because they don't have much written records and are very isolated...
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    Ancient Pakistan - Kharosthi Script

    Gandhara's major centres were in Northern Punjab (Potohar + Hazara), with Taxila in NW Punjab being the most advanced centre. Remember, even the Peshawer and Swat Valleys are (or until recently were) mostly Hindkowan (Punjabi dialect) speaking. Also, Gandharan language was a Northwestern...
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    Why is great philosopher Kautilya not part of Pakistan’s historical consciousness?

    'W' doesnt really exist in Indo-Iranian languages (both Iranic and Indic), only 'V' does and the interchangeability of v and b exists in almost all Indo-Iranian languages. Do you have more info about these Abgans? afaik, Afghan is a foreign term used by Persians or Arabs for Pashtuns, sometimes...
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    Why is great philosopher Kautilya not part of Pakistan’s historical consciousness?

    The Indo-Greeks = Pashtuns? lol Kushans originated in the Bactria-Sogdiana region, East Iranics of the vicinity like Pamiris, Yaghnobis etc. would have the most derived ancestry from them however other people from the former regions of their kingdom, with high steppe ancestry may have Kushan...
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    Committee to propose new Islamabad airport’s name

    MAKE GANDHARA GREAT AGAIN
  6. xairhossi

    How genetics is settling the Aryan migration debate

    lol. If thats what you want to believe, then ok :-)
  7. xairhossi

    How genetics is settling the Aryan migration debate

    What do you mean by Central Asian roots? Sanskrit was developed after the Aryans arrived in South Asia, so ofcourse it wouldnt be found in Central Asia. Their original home was in the Pontic-Caspian steppe in Southern Russia, with sites like Yamnaya, Sintashta, Srubnaya etc. being present. And...
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    How genetics is settling the Aryan migration debate

    Sanskrit developed when the Aryans arrived in South Asia, when they were still steppe nomads they spoke proto-Indo-Aryan. Sites like Yamnaya and Sintashta are where they expanded from. Dont know what evidence you're talking about, but the historic and genetic evidence for the Aryan invasion is...
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    Iran's Revolutionary Guards Blame Saudi Arabia for Attack on Parliament, Khomeini Shrine

    By this logic, the Mughals were Indians? So if an Arab invades Iran but writes some Persian poetry, he becomes a proud Iranian? Turks/Turkics cannot be Iranian by definition, but can be Iranian by nationality. Anyway, if Turks or Turkmens can be Iranian and Nader Shah was an Iranian, then I...
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    Iran's Revolutionary Guards Blame Saudi Arabia for Attack on Parliament, Khomeini Shrine

    Nader Shah was a Turk/Turcoman, not an Iranian.
  11. xairhossi

    Historic Sind analogous to modern Pakistan

    This is the description of 'Al-Sind' from the "Muruju-l Zahab" of Al-Masudi, famous 10th century historian and geographer, and often called the Arabic Herodotus. It was described as extending from the Suleiman Mountains in the west to Kashmir in the north, all the way to the Arabian Sea in the...
  12. xairhossi

    Pashto words in Urdu

    Why do you think it was exclusively the southern Kandahari type Pashtuns that were more united and had an incentive to form a dynasty compared to the northern ones?
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    Pashto words in Urdu

    I think it's rather interesting that all the major Pashtun dynasties were sheen/southern ones including the Durranis and Hotak.
  14. xairhossi

    Pashto words in Urdu

    Did the Lodis and Suris speak the Sha dialect or the Kha?
  15. xairhossi

    Pashto words in Urdu

    Where were the Lodis from originally? Kandahar? @Mian Babban
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    The Sindhi connection of Wahhabism

    I guess now people can't say that Wahabbism is a foreign concept imported to Pakistan :P
  17. xairhossi

    PSL's newest team is Multan, worth $41.6 million

    By the same logic, Quetta is also Pashtun majority, so technically Pashtuns also have two teams and Balochs have no representation?
  18. xairhossi

    The Sindhi connection of Wahhabism

    This incident/encounter in particular seems to have a big part in the formation of Wahhabism "Ibn Bishr records that one time Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhaab was at the tomb of Muhammad and he saw people prostrating in front of his grave. When he saw al-Sindi coming and he said to him, “What do you...
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    The Sindhi connection of Wahhabism

    @Kambojaric @Mian Babban @Kaptaan @Sher Shah Awan @Sharif al-Hijaz
  20. xairhossi

    The Sindhi connection of Wahhabism

    In the 18th century, Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahab of Najd, present day Saudi Arabia, founded the Islamic sect of Wahhabism as well as helping Muhammad Al Saud found the first Saudi state, the Emiriate of Diriyah. One of his principal teachers/guides was Muhammad Hayya Al-Sindhi, an ethnic Sindhi...
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