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Mr Abir...i had a huge debate on the issue of ethinicity of people of Pakistani Punjab with a indian dude on this forum this morning..u can check it..here is my part which will explain u why other than gujjars, jutts, rajputs and araees which are in considerable amount...other than these there are people of diverese ethinic backgrounds in Pakistan's Punjab who fluently speak Punjabi....Indian Punjabis are natives while most of ppl on Pakistan's Punjab side arn't dendents of natives...here is why
The group which indians claim is associated with them is punjabis.
Let's examine this province of punjab.
-you have millions of people in punjab from families of Sayyed, Qureshi, shah, Salara, Awans, the Khagga, the Dhund Abbasi, the Dhanyal, the Hans, the Hashmi (Nekokara), the Kahut and the Bodla,Thaheem ...their ancestors started comming to south punjab once it was part of ummayad caliphate and later abbasid caliphate....Muhammad Bin Qasim himself came up to Multan with 20000 Syrian Cavilary...and all of these have family histories dating back to arrival of arabs during rule of ummayads and abbasids.
- The families whose ancestors converted to islam include jatts, rajputs , araees and few other muhajir families and they are in large numbers but not in majority as our indian friends claim.
-There were mass migrations from muslim areas of central asia and persia to muslim ruled indian subcontinent due to Mongol invasions...and from Karachi to Punjab..people with their decent could be found ranging from sindh to northern pakistan and even in kashmir......
- In Punjab tribes who claim to come from afghanistan are gardezis (from gardez) a shia tribe in south punjab, sadozai ( again from Tarnak, Kandahar, and Kabul and are decendants of ahmed shah abdali) are spread out from peshawar to lahore and kashmir with some decedants even in present day india.
- Northern Punjab...u have people like niazis (pushtun tribe but mainly in mianwali, with significant niazi diaspora in lahor, karachi, islamabad , chakwal, parts of afghanistan)...some also call these ppl "punjabi pathans" espeacialy those in punjab...some famous niazis include imran khan a famous politician.
Hence in Pakistan's Punjab unlike Indian Punjab.....there are people from diverse ethinic backgrounds...including the local indian background...but they arnt in majority as u claim...dont forget more than 4-5 million natives of Punjab..migrated from Pakistan's Punjab to India

the indians will be better served getting their priorities in order; this constant anti-Pakistan behaviour, the double standards --it isn't doing them much justice.
instead of being useful, they are just trying to add to people's headaches.......more so others than our own! We've been dealing with a hostile indian for decades, we've heard the boy cry wolf since ages.
view the world beyond Pakistani or Chinese prisms........

Bro i did my reasearch..search online you would find the answers...these are the families...go and those people i mentioned....they will prove it whats their ethinic bloodline.....these families be it shah, sayyed, qureshis as mentioned...plus go n search about tribes who call themselves iraqi biradiri ...espeacialy sayyeds direct decendents of prophet are present throughout the muslim world.......please go ahead n do ur own research u ill find it.
I repeat there are sginificant indian ethinic converts as i mentioned (read my post again) including gujjars, rajputs, araees, jutts but they arnt in majority (concentrate on what i said)...these people are the same as ethinic inidan punjabis..but they arnt in majority...i am not saying there is no person who doesnt have local ethinic lineage....we are proud of these ppl..n they are wonderful muslims...
Pakistan is not only indian race...or punjabi race...or arab race..or some other race its a diverse country with diverse people including here in punjab....if u wanna believe a stereotype go ahead...but surely if u wanna find u will find the answer
There are so many ppl who consider themselves punjabi,,,they are fluent in punjabi...they look like ethinic punjabis but they arnt...this is a big misconception...eg...ethinicaly m a kahmiri but know nothing abt tht place...can speak punjabi n look like one...to a normal person i ill be an ethinic punjabi..but in reality m not.
Its such a big misconception..that here in toronto we met a sikh guy..and my friend who is a butt (again speaks fluent punjabi is frm lhr n is a bu-tts r kashmiris) met him...the sikh guy was so brainwashed..he said bhatts and bu-tts are the same thing...bhatts were forcibly converted n called themselves bu-tts...although they are from way north..n bhatts are down from central india i guess.. haha...so the truth is many people follow stereotypes...