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Although modern day Pakistan, the land of Indus, emerged on the world map as a new nation-state in 1947 it has a very long history that goes back over thousands of years and it is one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited regions. The Indus Valley was known as Meluhha [1] in Mesopotamia when the Harappan civilization was thriving here. When the Aryan tribes came and settled down in the upper Indus valley in the middle of the second millennium BC they called it Sapta-Sindhu [2] (the land of seven rivers). Now this Indus land is called Pakistan which is an acronym composed from the initial letters of the name of its provinces namely, Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh and the last three letters of Balochistan.

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Post-Independence Era

References

  1. ^ Gregory Possehl: The Indus Civilization. A Contemporary Perspective. Lanham 2002, S. 217ff.
  2. ^ http://www.heritage.gov.pk/html_Pages/history1.html
  3. ^ The African Emergence and Early Asian Dispersals of the Genus Homo - American Scientist
  4. ^ http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/research/pakistan
  5. ^ Gandhara Civilization
  6. ^ The Pathans, Olaf Caroe
  7. ^ Battle of Miani, Enyclopedia Britannica}

Literature

  • Gregory Possehl: The Indus Civilization. A Contemporary Perspective. Lanham 2002

See also

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