Secular lifestyle failed in Pakistan. Secular political parties led to divisions on racial lines and provincial politics destroyed our nation. 1971 saw the loss of our Eastern wing, which was the result of secularism and rising Bengali nationalism. To top it all off, two liberal governments freely looted our wealth and left us with a horrendous amount of debt, which we have still not clawed our way out of.
Our number one and greatest ally and role model for our life as a nation, the US, deeply backstabbed us again and again. The final nail in the coffin of our friendship came when they set up Indian terrorists in Afghanistan to murder 75,000 of our people.
Yes, Pakistanis had to search inwards and find the solutions to these problems and why these terrible things kept happening to us.
The solution was simple. We had left the onus of our state and adopted secularism, it was destroying us left and right. So then Islam came back in full focus, and then we saw the nation coalesce back together into a monolithic nation on the base of Islam and the frame of a shared heritage (IVC, Iranic.)
Bollywood is not so popular anymore. You are still a little late on your analysis. We had left that almost a decade ago.
Recent craze in Pakistan are Turkish serials.
Pakistanis are not like Indians, we are racially
very diverse. We have heritage from Turks, Mongols, Iranians, Arabs, Kurds, and Afghans, in addition to the predominant IVC and Iranic nomad ancestry (Saka, Kushan, Hepthalite) we have. We even have ancient pure Iranic populations like Kalash (called Nuristanis in Afghanistan) and African origin Makrani people.
Your racial caricatures of Pukhtoons also is highly offensive and false. They form 25% of our population, are represented in all cities, have high degree of intermarriage with other groups, and form distinct groups all over Pakistan such as Hindkowan of Hazara, Niazis of Central Punjab, and significant populations in Balochistan, Karachi, and North Punjab.
To outsiders who don't understand Pakistan, it can seem an insurmountable task to understand us. However, for those willing to ask questions and accept the answers given by Pakistanis, it will make sense.
Now sitting in a pind in Central Punjab or mountains of KPK, we would laugh at anyone who would claim we have some confusion about our identity. This is the soil of our fathers and the air breathed in by them, we are most comfortable in who we are.
We are Pakistanis.
Sorry sir, I will bow out of off-topic discussions now.
