Walaikum Asalam
I am not saying brother that what they are saying is wrong, it is possible that majority of Pakistanis descended from Turks, Arabs or Iranians. But the present day Egyptians are hardly the people who built pyramids of Giza, well majority of them are not, yet they are damn proud of the Egyptian past. Same is with all the nations of the world, yet in our case our people are still looking outward for a sense of belonging. There is a reason for that, that past of ours is Hindu, and we are at odds with Hindu India hence it is hard for us to reconcile with it.
I give you an example, Porus should be a national hero of Pakistan and instead of Abdali and Ghaznavi we should have named a missile after him. One as King of present day Jehlum, he was son of the soil and two he was a true freedom fighter not bowing to the might of the invader Alexander. Yet the way we or at-least my generation was brought up, we always make fun of Porus (Porus kay Hathi) and admire Alexander, one Alexander's arabnized name Sikander sounds muslim to us and two Porus was a Hindu. We have no regard for the fact that Alexander was a polytheist as well and the incident happened a millennia before Islam arrived at our shores.
No other nation does this, take French for example. They are not all of Gallic origin, they are a mix of celts, burgundians, romans, normans, germans(the franks) and yes gauls, but Vercingetorix is their national hero because he fought to liberate the French soil.
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Maratthas only ruled Pakistan between mid 1758 and late 1759, before they were ousted by Afghans. And this was the first time Hindu rule came back to Pakistan after nearly 700 years of continuous muslim rule starting from when Ghaznavi defeated Jai Pal. Now do you consider 1.5 years to be significant?
Then from 1799 to 1849 (50 years) we were ruled by Sikhs. So before the arrival of British, out of 850 years that Muslims arrived in present day Pakistani Punjab, KPK and upper Sindh they were ruled for 50 years by the local non-muslims(Hindu and Sikh combined). So you think majority of India was ruled by muslim dynasties for 50 years or less? This is equal to the reign of one muslim emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir(1649-1707) and here is the map of his empire.
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