Offical Pakistan government site writes Hindus out of History !
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The article just writes Hindus and India out of History. No doubt the
Indian secular movement is looking on with pride and hoping they too can
do the same. Should read the rest of the articles and you will see that
the Sikh's are really Sufi inspired people and have nothing to do with
India or Hindus at all. And guru Gobin is a Pakistani !
Indus Civilization
This land also witnessed the glorious era of Indus civilization
about 8000 years B.C when the first village was found at
Mehargarh in the Sibi District of Balochistan comparable with
the earliest villages of Jericho in Palestine and Jarmo in Iraq.
Here, during the last decade i.e., 1980’s, the French and
Pakistani archaeologists have excavated mud built houses of
the Mehergarh people and their agricultural land known for the
cultivation of maize and wheat, together with polished stone
tools, beads and other ornaments, painted jars and bowls,
drinking glasses, dishes and plates.
The archachaeologists believe that by 7000 B.C., the
Mehergarh people learnt to use the metal for the first time.
From the first revolution of agricultural life the man moved to
another great revolution in his social, cultural and economic
life. He established trade relations with the people of
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iran and the Arab world. He not
only specialized in painting different designs of pottery, made
varieties of pots and used cotton and wool but also made
terracotta figurines and imported precious stones from
Afghanistan and Central Asia. This early bronze age Culture
spread out in the countryside of Sind, Balochistan, Punjab and
North West Frontier Province of Pakistan.
This early beginning led to the concentration of population into
the small towns, such as Kot Diji in Sind and Rahman Dheri in
Dera Ismail Khan district. It is this social and cultural exchange
that led to the rise of the famous cities of Mohenjodaro and
Harrappa, with largest concentration of population including
artisans, craftsmen, businessmen and rulers.This culminated in
the peak of the Indus Civilization which was primarily based
on intensively irrigated agricultural land and overseas trade and
contact with Iran, Gulf States, Mesopotamia and Egypt.
Dames were built for storing river water, land was cultivated
by means of bullock-harnessed plough - a system which still
prevails in Pakistan, grainaries for food storage were built,
furnance was used for controlling temperature for making red
pottery and various kinds of ornaments, beads of carnelian,
agate, and terracotta were pierced through and above all they
traded their finished goods with Central Asia and Arab world.
It is these trade dividends that enriched the urban populace
who eveloped a new sense of moral honesty, discipline and
cleanliness combined with a social stratification in which the
priests and the mercantile class dominated the society. The
picture of high civilization can be gathered only by looking at
the city of Mohenjodaro, the First Planned City in the World,
in which the streets are alligned straight, parallel to each other
with cross streets cutting at right angles. It is through these
wide streets that wheeled carrages, drwan by bulls or asses,
moved about, carrying well-adorned persons seated on them
appreciating the closely alligned houses made of pucca-bricks,
all running straight along the streets. And then through the
middle of the streets ran stone dressed drains covered with
stone slabs - a practice of keeping the streets clean from
polluted water, seen for the first time in the world.
The legacy of our predecessors at the time of our
independence, on August 14, 1947, came to us as a treasure
which may be called as Pakistan’s national heritage. So rich
and diversified is this heritage that Pakistani nation can be
proud of its glorious past, be Islamic, Post Islamic or
pre-Islamic period as far back as pre-historic times. No other
country of the world can produce the treasure of by gone days
as can be found in Pakistan. It is now incumbent upon us to
treasure our national heritage and save it from further
deterioration and theft.
The establishment of NFCH is much appreciated and a great
interest is shown by the general public hence since its
establishment in 1994 hundreds of proposals were received
from different agencies and individuals for the conservation,
preservation and publication of the Pakistan’s national
heritage. It is hoped that with the continued patronage of the
government, the Philanthropists and the Business Community
to the NFCH we shall be able to achieve the aforesaid goal.
Seal of Bull
Mohenjodaro
Priest King
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