pakistan, iran, south india?

Originally posted by Afghanan Prior to Mahmud Ghaznavis conquests, Eastern Afghanistan and all of Pakistan was firmly in the culture of the Indian subcontinent.  Hindu rulers ruled from Kabul to Jalalabad, to Ningrahar, to Konar, Peshawar all the way to Kashmir and beyond. Looks and color of skin having nothing to do with it.

Hold on, so you are saying that all these named areas were ruled by the "Indian" Hindu rulers? Or are you trying to say that it was under the control of local Hindu rulers, i.e. Afghan Hindus.

Well what do you mean by "indian", perhaps if you mean Indus Valley and surrounding areas then yes thats true. However I can't agree that say Bengal or the DEccan were in anyways similar to them.

Originally posted by mughal it depends, the muhjirs that are places from like the indian kashmir or even Northern UP, Delhi etc... look much lighter then lets say sindhis or southern punjabis. You can't just say just because their muhajirs they have to be dark.

There is no such thing as a muhajir from Indian kashmir or the Kashmir Valley. Muhajir refers to Urdu speaking people who migrated from India to Pakistan. (I know that a muhajir is one who migrated, but in Pakistan it refers to native urdu speakers of Indian states)

Ethnic Kashmiris do not speak urdu natively, have not migrated to Pakistan in masses like others and do not have any lingusitic/cultural affinity to muhajirs from India or Pakistani people. Actually they dont even have any linguistic or cultural affinity to the so called Kashmiris of Azad Kashmir.

There are an estimated 105,000 kashmiri speakers in Pakistan so I'm guessing there are around 150,000 kashmiris in the whole of Pakistan max.

Its not a deal to differentiate or compare these sub-regions. Within pakistan itself the punjab and sind region shares culture/language/people with northern India. In the sameway northern india majorly shares itself with southern-east India. Again srilanka shares itself with southern india.

 

In turn, the pustons/baloch/NW Tribal land of pakistan share with Iran/Afganisthan. To stress the above stmt, you can check and see baloch spread all over from Iran to West pakistan and Pustons concentrated over the region circuiting Western pakistan to Afganistan. But not inside sind/punjab or india.

 

Originally posted by mughal how about looks wise?

LOL! You persian wannabe! You can say anything you want but anybody that is non-brown will see you as an Indian. LOL. Hell even people in America can't tell the difference between an Indian and a Middle Eastern. But hey, you can see your self as Persian if you want if it helps you sleep at night.

Anit


Edited by LuvPutraPatel - 30-Jul-2007 at 13:18