Indus Valley- Ancient Pakistan

The 5000 year old Indus Valley civilisation is at the heart of Pakistan, and is the heritage of Pakistanis.

The oldest recorded history of the Pakistani people.
To learn more click the following links:
http://www.geocities.com/pak_history/
http://moinansari.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/pakistanis-refuse-to-call-is-parti...
http://www.ancientpakistan.info/
http://www.heritage.gov.pk/html_Pages/history1.html
http://www.geocities.com/junaid_hassan25/ancient.html
http://www.chowk.com/articles/6279
http://www.alientravelguide.com/history/ancient/pakistan.htm
http://www.heritage.gov.pk/html_Pages/indus.html
http://www.webmunism.com/webmune/History_of_ancient_Pakistan
http://www.rakaposhi.com.pk/
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/pk.html

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• Mohenjo
• Daro
• Harappa
• Indus
• Valley
• Mohenjodaro
• Ancient
• Ruins
• BC
• History
• Pakistan
• Asia
• Punjab
• Sindh
• Kashmir
• Frontier

[MACKBOOK123456]

Tell me does pakistan people have a same ancient descendant from indian people?

[PakiZtaNiuM]

@MACKBOOK123456

How can we possible know?? If you want to find out, Indus valley is the wrong place to look because it existed relatively recently, i.e 5000 years ago. South Asia was inhabited by Humans 50 000 years ago. Are you seriously implying that IV as recently as 5000 years ago could have been the ancestors of everyone in South Asia? Most likely Indus Valley descendent are the same people living there today, i.e Pakistanis.

95% Pakistanis are native to the Indys Valley. Not Indians.

[perrier09]

4:-Similarly the name Hindu was given by arabs/iranians to the people living to the east of the river Sindhu.They called"s" as "H" hence the name Hindu.Hindu was a geo-political term describing ppl living in a particular area and not religious ppl just like greek,arab,mongal,turk,chinese etc. Hindu didn't have anything religious related to it at all.But it was the brahmins who stole this hindu identity to make it a religious one.Kindly note that the word Hindu doesnt appear in no religious texts

[perrier09]

It was the muslims who gave India the name of Hindustan. Hindustani and Hindu simply meant a person from Hind. These terms had nothing to do with religion. You could be a muslim from the Hindu nationality. Brahmins have stolen this 'Hindu' identity to unite the bharatiyas against the muslims. In RSS/VHP schools it is taught that since the land is called Hindustan it only belongs to Hindus and ALL the muslims should be kicked out.how ironic??

[sohantherebel]

IVC was a dravidian civilization. Present day pakistanis are aryans mixed with semitic and turkic invaders. Therefore people who built the IVC are not the ancestors of present day pakistanis except may be the Brahui people,who can claim partial ancestry since they are the last remaining dravidian people of the region who of course now are mixed with other ethnicities.

[PakiiPunjabi]

@TheLavish99 "India" is the ancient name of the Indus states (Pakistan). There was no partition in 1947, this phrase "partition" is out dated and useless. India didnt exist up untill 1947.

[TheLavish99]

Pakistan was part of India, Sherlocks! "Indus" sounds like "India" to me. It was only due to the Muslim majority that Pakistan was partitioned and separated from the rest of the country. I do CHALLENGE anyone to read literary works by Stephen Knapp and Kanayalal Talreja. When reading their books, you discover how pro-western bias against India like this video never credits Indians for their contributions to civilization, religion, spirituality, science, medicine, technology, math, etc.

[PakiZtaNiuM]

@1987naren

The real laugh is that you have no idea what the Indus Valley language is, but still mindlessly claim its a Dravidian language. How about deciphering the language before making such silly claims?

[Truth1Teller]

To say the IVC belongs to the whole of south asia, is like saying "the persian empire, belongs to the whole of middle east".

it's like saying "ancient egypt belongs to the whole of north africa".

It's like saying "the whole of europe can take credit for Greek civilization and history".

[Truth1Teller]

@gujjucheap Just because you decided to name your newly-formed country in 1947 as "india" doesnt give you the right to claim all south asia's history as your own. the modern-day "india" is a creation of the british.

[Truth1Teller]

@gujjucheap No we are not the same. "india", "indika", ect. was a word used to describe geographic location of south asia by invaders. same as ow "middle east" is used to describe geographic location of west asian countries. even today pakistanis share ethnicity with north west indians only(kashmris and punjabis). if you come to pakistan and say to a punjabi "punjabis and gujaratis are the same", you will get laughed at, and many punjabis consider this as an insult.

[gujjucheap]

we have alot to be proud of, what do you mean you dont have to share it, if many indus valley sites are in india then you obviously do. we are the same people, in this region there were traditionaly 3 cultures, the persians, khorasanis(afghans) and the indians, i cant find any historical pakistan before 1947. yes india was never one country but there was always a land of india with many natioans and traditions within it. mahmud ghazni and mohammed bin qasim were not forenrunners to pakistan