History of Pakistan

The history of Pakistan encompasses the history of the region

constituting modern-day Pakistan. For over three millennia, the
region has witnessed human activity[1] and one of the world's major
civilizations,[2][3][4][5] the Indus Valley Civilisation. The trade routes
which traverse the Indus Valley linking Central Asia, the Indian
subcontinent and the Orient have attracted people from as far as
Greece and Mongolia[6] and several imperial powers, the last being
the British Empire.

Contents
History by chronology and region
Prehistory
Paleolithic period
Neolithic period
Indus Valley Civilisation
Early history – Iron Age
Vedic period A map outlining historical sites in Pakistan
Indus Valley
Ganges Plain
Achaemenid Empire
Ror dynasty
Macedonian Empire
Mauryan Empire
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
Classical period – Middle Kingdoms
Indo-Greek Kingdom
Indo-Scythian Kingdom
Indo-Parthian Kingdom
Kushan Empire
Sasanian Empire
Gupta Empire
Rai dynasty
Hephthalite Empire
Brahmin dynasty
Rajput dynasties
Arab Caliphate
Kabul Shahi
Medieval period
Ghaznavid dynasty
Soomra dynasty
Delhi Sultanate
Mongol invasions
Samma dynasty
Mughal Empire
Rise of Sikhism
Durrani Empire
 Maratha Empire
Sikh Empire
British colonization
Independence movement
Early period of Pakistan Movement
Muslim League
Muslim homeland – "Now or Never"
1940 Resolution
Final phase of the Pakistan Movement
Independence from the British Empire
Post-Independence
See also
Notes
References
Surveys
Further reading
External links

History by chronology and region

History of Azad Jammu & Kashmir
History of Balochistan
History of East Pakistan
History of Gilgit-Baltistan
History of Islamabad
History of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
History of Punjab
History of Sindh

Prehistory

Paleolithic period
The Szabist is a Paleolithic site in upper Punjab. Riwat Site 55, shows a later occupation dated to around 45,000 years ago. The
Soanian is archaeological culture of the Lower Paleolithic, shazi and ali are brother Acheulean. It is named after the Soan Valley in
the Sivalik Hills, near modern-dayIslamabad/Rawalpindi. In Adiyala and Khasala, about 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) from Rawalpindi, on
the bend of the Soan River hundreds of edged pebble tools were discovered. No human skeletons of this age have yet been found.

Neolithic period
Mehrgarh is an important neolithic site discovered in 1974, which shows early evidence of farming and herding,[7] and dentistry.[1]
The site dates back to 7000–5500 BCE) and is located on the Kachi Plain of Balochistan. The residents of Mehrgarh lived in mud
brick houses, stored grain in granaries, fashioned tools with copper ore, cultivated barley, wheat, jujubes and dates, and herded sheep,
goats and cattle. As the civilization progressed (5500–2600 BCE) residents began to engage in crafts, including flint knapping,
tanning, bead production, and metalworking. The site was occupied continuously until 2600 BCE,[8] when climatic changes began to
occur. Between 2600 and 2000 BCE, region became more arid and Mehrgarh was abandoned in favor of the Indus Valley,[9] where a
new civilization was in the early stages of development.[10]

Indus Valley Civilisation

The Bronze Age in the Indus Valley began around 3300 BCE with Indus Valley Civilisation
the Indus Valley Civilization.[11] Along with Ancient Egypt and
Mesopotamia, it was one of three early civilizations of the Old
World, and of the three the most widespread,[12] covering an area
of 1.25 million km2.[13] It flourished in the basins of the Indus
River, in what is today the Pakistani provinces of Sindh, Punjab
and Balochistan, and along a system of perennial, mostly
monsoon-fed, rivers that once coursed in the vicinity of the
seasonal Ghaggar-Hakra River in parts of northwest
India.[14][15][16][note 1] At its peak, the civilization hosted a
population of approximately 5 million spread across hundreds of The "Indus Priest King" The Pashupati seal.
settlements extending as far as the Arabian Sea to present-day statue is carved from
southern and eastern Afghanistan, and the Himalayas.[17] steatite.
Inhabitants of the ancient Indus river valley, the Harappans,
developed new techniques in metallurgy and handicraft (carneol
products, seal carving), and produced copper,bronze, lead, and tin.

The Mature Indus civilisation flourished from about 2600 to

1900 BCE, marking the beginning of urban civilisation in the Indus
Valley. The civilisation included urban centres such as Harappa,
Ganeriwala and Mohenjo-daro as well as an offshoot called the
Kulli culture (2500–2000 BCE) in southern Balochistan and was
noted for its cities built of brick, roadside drainage system, and
Excavated ruins of the The Dancing Girl of
multi-storeyed houses. It is thought to have had some kind of
Great Bath at Mohenjo- Mohenjo-daro.
municipal organisation as well.
daro in Sindh.
During the late period of this civilisation, signs of agradual decline
began to emerge, and by around 1700 BCE, most of the cities were
abandoned. However, the Indus Valley Civilisation did not disappear suddenly, and some elements of the Indus Civilisation may have
survived. Aridification of this region during the 3rd millennium BCE may have been the initial spur for the urbanisation associated
with the civilisation, but eventually also reduced the water supply enough to cause the civilisation's demise, and to scatter its
population eastward.[18][19][16][20][note 2] The civilization collapsed around 1700 BCE, though the reasons behind its fall are still
unknown. Through the excavation of the Indus cities and analysis of town planning and seals, it has been inferred that the
Civilization had high level of sophistication in its town planning, arts, crafts, and trade.
 Dates Phase Era
7000–5500
Mehrgarh I (aceramic Neolithic) Early Food Producing Era
BCE
Pre-Harappan
5500–3300
Mehrgarh II-VI (ceramic Neolithic)
BCE Regionalisation Era
c.4000-2500/2300 BCE
3300–2800
Harappan 1 (Ravi Phase;Hakra Ware) (Shaffer)[21]
BCE
c.5000–3200 BCE (Coningham
Early Harappan
2800–2600 Harappan 2 (Kot Diji Phase, Nausharo & Young)[22]
BCE I, Mehrgarh VII)
2600–2450
Harappan 3A (Nausharo II)
BCE
2450–2200 Mature Harappan
Harappan 3B Integration Era
BCE (Indus Valley Civilisation)
2200–1900
Harappan 3C
BCE
1900–1700
Late Harappan Harappan 4
BCE
(Cemetery H);Ochre Localisation Era
1700–1300 Coloured Pottery Harappan 5
BCE

Early history – Iron Age

Vedic period

Indus Valley
The Vedic Period (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE) is postulated to have formed during the Indo-
Aryan migration between 1500 BCE to 800 BCE. As Indo-Aryans migrated and settled
into the Indus Valley, along with them came their distinctive religious traditions and
practices which fused with local culture.[23] The Indo-Aryans religious beliefs and
practices from the Bactria–Margiana Culture and the native Harappan Indus beliefs of
the former Indus Valley Civilisation eventually gave rise to Vedic culture and tribes.[24]
[note 3] The initial early Vedic culture was a tribal, pastoral society centered in the Indus
Valley, of what is today Pakistan. During this period the Vedas, the oldest scriptures of Archaeological cultures. The
GGC, Cemetery H, Copper Hoard
Hinduism, were composed.[note 4]
and PGW cultures are candidates
for cultures associated withIndo-
Several early tribes and kingdoms arose during this period and internecine military
Aryans.
conflicts between these various tribes was common; as described in the Rig Veda, which
was being composed at this time, the most notable of such conflicts was the Battle of
Ten Kings. This battle took place on the banks of the River Ravi in the 14th century BC (1300 BCE). The battle was fought between
the Bharatas tribe and a confederation of ten tribes:

Abhira Kingdom, centered in the Cholistan-Thar region.

Bahlika Kingdom, centered in Punjab.
Gandhara grave culture, also called Swat culture and centered in the Swat Valley of present-day Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa.
Kamboja Kingdom, centered in the Hindu Kush region.
Kasmira Kingdom, centered in present-dayKashmir Valley.
Madra Kingdom, centered in upper Punjab, with its capital atSialkot
Pauravas, a sub-clan of Kambojas
 Sindhu Kingdom, centered in present-daySindh.
Sudra Kingdom, centered in the Cholistan-Thar region.

Ganges Plain
After 1200 BCE, some Vedic tribes began migrating to the Ganges Plain, present-day India, which was characterized by increasing
settled agriculture, a hierarchy of four social classes, and the emergence of monarchical, state-level polities.[27][28] In addition to the
Vedas, the principal texts of Hinduism, the core themes of the Sanskrit epics Ramayana and Mahabharata are said to have their
ultimate origins during this period.[29] The early Indo-Aryan presence probably corresponds, in part, to the Ochre Coloured Pottery
culture in archaeological contexts.[30] The end of the Vedic period witnessed the rise of large, urbanised states as well as of shramana
movements (includingJainism and Buddhism) which challenged the Vedic orthodoxy.[31] Around the beginning of the Common Era,
the Vedic tradition formed one of the main constituents of the so-called Hindu
" synthesis".[32]

Achaemenid Empire
The main Vedic tribes remaining in the Indus Valley by 550 BC were the Kamboja,
Sindhu, Taksas of Gandhara, the Madras and Kathas of the River Chenab, Mallas of
the River Ravi and Tugras of the River Sutlej. These several tribes and principalities
fought against one another to such an extent that the Indus Valley no longer had one
powerful Vedic tribal kingdom to defend against outsiders and to wield the warring
tribes into one organized kingdom. The area was wealthy and fertile, yet infighting
led misery and despair. King Pushkarasakti of Gandhara was engaged in power Much of the area corresponding to
struggles against his local rivals and as such the Khyber Pass remained poorly modern-day Pakistan was
subordinated to the Achaemenid
defended. King Darius I of the Achaemenid Empire took advantage of the
Empire and forced to pay tributes to
opportunity and planned for an invasion. The Indus Valley was fabled in Persia for Persia
its gold and fertile soil and conquering it had been a major objective of his
predecessor Cyrus The Great.[33] In 542 BC, Cyrus had led his army and conquered
the Makran coast in southern Balochistan. However, he is known to have campaigned beyond Makran (in the regions of Kalat,
Khuzdar and Panjgur) and lost most of his army in theGedrosian Desert (speculated today as theKharan Desert).

In 518 BC, Darius led his army through the Khyber Pass and southwards in stages, eventually reaching the Arabian Sea coast in
Sindh by 516 BC. Under Persian rule, a system of centralized administration, with a bureaucratic system, was introduced into the
Indus Valley for the first time. Provinces or "satrapy" were established with provincial capitals:

Gandhara satrapy, established 518 BC with its capital atPushkalavati (Charsadda). Gandhara Satrapy was
established in the general region of the old Gandhara grave culture, in what is today Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. During
Achaemenid rule, the Kharosthi alphabet, derived from the one used for Aramaic (the of ficial language of
Achaemenids), developed here and remained the national script of Gandhara until 200 AD.
Hindush satrapy, established in 518 BC with its capital atTaxila. The satrapy was established in upper Punjab
(presumably in the Potohar plateau region).
Arachosia satrapy, established in 517 BC with its capital atKandahar. Arachosia was one of the larger provinces
covering much of lower Punjab, southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of modern-day Pakistan and Helmand province of
what is today Afghanistan. The inhabitants of Arachosia were referred to asPaktyans by ethnicity, and that name
may have been in reference to the ethnicPax̌tūn (Pashtun) tribes.
Sattagydia satrapy, established in 516 BC in what is todaySindh. Sattagydia is mentioned for the first time in the
Behistun inscription of Darius the Great as one of the provinces in revolt while the king was in Babylon. The revolt
was presumably suppressed in 515 BC. The satrapy disappears from sources after 480 BC, possibly being
mentioned by another name or included with other regions. [34]

Gedrosia satrapy, established in 542 BC, covered much of theMakran region of southern Balochistan. It had been
conquered much earlier by Cyrus The Great.[35]
Despite all this, there is no archaeological evidence of Achaemenid control over these region as not a single archaeological site that
can be positively identified with the Achaemenid Empire has been found anywhere in Pakistan, including at Taxila. What is known
about the easternmost satraps and borderlands of the Achaemenid Empire is alluded to in the Darius inscriptions and from Greek
sources such as the Histories of Herodotus and the later Alexander Chronicles (Arrian, Strabo et al.). These sources list three Indus
Valley tributaries or conquered territories that were subordinated to the Persian Empire and made to pay tributes to the Persian Kings:
Gandhara, Sattagydia and Hindush.[34]

Ror dynasty
The Ror dynasty (Sindhi: ‫ )روﻫ ا راڄ‬was a Sindhi Buddhist dynasty which ruled much of what is todaySindh, Punjab and northwest
India in 450 BC.[36] The Rors ruled from Rori and was built by Dhaj, Ror Kumar, a Ror Kshatriya. Buddhist Jataka stories talk about
exchanges of gifts between King Rudrayan of Roruka and King Bimbisara of Magadha.[37] Divyavadana, the Buddhist chronicle has
said that Rori historically competed with Pataliputra in terms of political influence.[38] Rori was wiped out in a major sand storm,[39]
which was recorded in both theBuddhist Bhallatiya Jataka andJain annals.

Macedonian Empire
In 328 BC, Alexander The Great of Macedonia and now the king of Persia, had
conquered much of the former Satraps of the Achaemenid Empire up to Bactria. The
remaining satraps lay in the Indus Valley, but Alexander ruled off invading the Indus
until his forces were in complete control of the newly acquired satraps. In 327 BC,
Alexander married Roxana (a princess of the former Bactria satrapy) to cement his
relations with his new territories. Now firmly under Macedonian rule, Alexander
was free to turn his attention to the Indus Valley. The rationale for the Indus
campaign is usually said to be Alexander's desire to conquer the entire known world,
which the Greeks thought ended around the vicinity of the River Indus.

In the winter of 327 BC, Alexander invited all the chieftains in the remaining five
Achaemenid satraps to submit to his authority. Ambhi, then ruler of Taxila in the
former Hindush satrapy complied, but the remaining tribes and clans in the former
satraps of Gandhara, Arachosia, Sattagydia and Gedrosia rejected Alexander's offer.
By spring of 326 BC, Alexander began on his Indus expedition from Bactira, leaving Alexander's campaign in the Indus
behind 3500 horses and 10,000 soldiers. He divided his army into two groups. The Valley.

larger force would enter the Indus Valley through the Khyber pass, just as Darius
had done 200 years earlier, while a smaller force under the personal command of
Alexander entered through a northern route, possibly through Broghol or Dorah Pass near Chitral. Alexander was commanding a
group of shield-bearing guards, foot-companions, archers, Agrianians, and horse-javelin-men and led them against the tribes of the
former Gandhara satrapy.

The first tribe they encountered were the Aspasioi tribe of the Kunar Valley, who initiated a fierce battle against Alexander, in which
he himself was wounded in the shoulder by a dart. However, the Aspasioi eventually lost and 40,000 people were enslaved.
Alexander then continued in a southwestern direction where he encountered the Assakenoi tribe of the Swat & Buner valleys in April
326 BC. The Assakenoi fought bravely and offered stubborn resistance to Alexander and his army in the cities of Ora, Bazira
(Barikot) and Massaga. So enraged was Alexander about the resistance put up by the Assakenoi that he killed the entire population of
Massaga and reduced its buildings to rubble – similar slaughters followed in Ora.[40] A similar slaughter then followed at Ora,
another stronghold of the Assakenoi. The stories of these slaughters reached numerous Assakenians, who began fleeing to Aornos, a
hill-fort located between Shangla and Kohistan. Alexander followed close behind their heels and besieged the strategic hill-fort,
eventually capturing and destroying the fort and killing everyone inside. The remaining smaller tribes either surrendered or like the
Astanenoi tribe of Pushkalavati(Charsadda) were quickly neutralized where 38,000 soldiers and 230,000 oxen were captured by
Alexander.[41] Eventually Alexander's smaller force would meet with the larger force which had come through the Khyber Pass met
at Attock. With the conquest of Gandhara complete, Alexander switched to strengthening his military supply line, which by now
stretched dangerously vulnerable over theHindu Kush back to Balkh in Bactria.
After conquering Gandhara and solidifying his supply line back to Bactria, Alexander combined his forces with the King Ambhi of
Taxila and crossed the River Indus in July 326 BC to begin the Archosia (Punjab) campaign. His first resistance would come at the
River Jhelum near Bhera against King Porus of the Paurava tribe. The famous Battle of the Hydaspes (Jhelum) between Alexander
(with Ambhi) and Porus would be the last major battle fought by him. After defeating King Porus, his battle weary troops refused to
advance into India[42] to engage the army of Nanda Dynasty and its vanguard of trampling elephants. Alexander, therefore proceeded
southwest along the Indus Valley.[43] Along the way, he engaged in several battles with smaller kingdoms in Multan and Sindh,
before marching his army westward across theMakran desert towards what is nowIran. In crossing the desert, Alexander's army took
enormous casualties from hunger and thirst, but fought no human enemy. They encountered the "Fish Eaters", or Ichthyophagi,
primitive people who lived on the Makran coast, who had matted hair, no fire, no metal, no clothes, lived in huts made of whale
bones, and ate raw seafood.

Alexander founded several new settlements in Gandhara, Punjab and Sindh.[44] and nominated officers as Satraps of the new
provinces:

In Gandhara, Oxyartes was nominated to the position of Satrap by Alexander in 326 BC.
In Sindh, Alexander nominated his officer Peithon as Satrap in 325 BC, a position he would hold for the next ten
years.
In Punjab, Alexander initially nominatedPhilip as Satrap from 327 BC to 326 BC. In 326 BC, he nominated
Eudemus and Taxiles as joint-Satraps until 323 BC when Eudemus resigned leaving Taxiles as Satrap until 321BC.
Porus of Jhelum then became Satrap of Punjab.
In Gedrosia, Sibyrtius was nominated as Satrap in 323 BC and remained so until 303 BC.
When Alexander died in 323 BCE, he left behind an expansive empire stretching from
Greece to the Indus River. The empire was put
under the authority of Perdiccas, and the territories were divided among Alexander's generals (the Diadochi), who thereby became
satraps of the new provinces. However, the Satraps of the Indus Valley largely remained under the same leaders while conflicts were
brewing in Egypt and Mesopotamia.

Mauryan Empire
Due to the internal conflicts of Alexanders generals, Chandragupta and his Brahmin
counselor Chanakya saw an opportunity to expand the Mauryan Empire from its
Ganges Plain heartland in Bihar towards the Indus Valley between 325 BC to 303
BC. At the same time, Seleucus I now ruler much of the Macedonian Empire was
advancing from Babylon in order to establish his writ in the former Persian and
Indus Valley provinces of Alexander. During this period, Chandragupta's
mercenaries may have assassinated Satrap of Punjab Philip. They presumably also
fought Eudemus, Porus and Taxiles of Punjab and Peithon of Sindh. In 316 BC, both
Eudemus and Peithon left Punjab and Sindh for Babylon, thus ending Macedonian
rule. The Mauryan Empire now controlled Punjab and Sindh. As the Seleucid Mauryan Empire underAshoka the
Empire expanded eastwards towards the Indus, it was becoming more difficult for Great
Seleucus to assert control over the vast eastern domains. Seleucus invaded Punjab in
305 BC, confronting Chandragupta Maurya. It is said that Chandragupta fielded an
army of 600,000 men and 9000 war elephants. After two years of war, Seleucus reached an agreement with Chandragupta, in which
he gave his daughter in marriage to Chandragupta and exchanged his eastern provinces for a considerable force of 500 war elephants,
which would play a decisive role atIpsus (301 BC). Strabo, in his Geographica, wrote:

"He [Seleucus] crossed the Indus and waged war with Maurya who dwelt on the banks of that stream, until they came
to an understanding with each other and contracted a marriageelationship."
r

Alexander took these away from the Indo-Aryans and established settlements of his own, but Seleucus Nicator gave
them to Sandrocottus (Chandragupta), upon terms of intermarriage and of erceiving in exchange 500 elephants.[45]
 — Strabo, 64 BC–24 AD

Thus Chandragupta was given Gedrosia (Balochistan) and much of what is now Afghanistan, including the modern Herat[46] and
Kandahar provinces, thereby ending Macedonian control in the Indus aVlley by 303 BC.

Under Chandragupta and his successors, internal and external trade, agriculture and economic activities, all thrived and expanded
across the empire thanks to the creation of a single and efficient system of finance, administration, and security. The empire was
divided into four provinces, with the imperial capital at Pataliputra. From Ashokan edicts, the names of the four provincial capitals
were Tosali (in the eastern Ganges plain), Ujjain (in the western Ganges plain), Suvarnagiri (in the Deccan), and Taxila (in the Indus
Valley). The head of the provincial administration was the Kumara (royal prince), who governed the provinces as king's
representative. The kumara was assisted by Mahamatyas and council of ministers. The empire also enjoyed an era of social harmony,
religious transformation, and expansion of the sciences and of knowledge. Mauryans were followers of Buddhism and Hinduism.
Chandragupta Maurya's embrace of Jainism increased social and religious renewal and reform across his society, while Ashoka's
embrace of Buddhism has been said to have been the foundation of the reign of social and political peace and non-violence across the
empire.[46] Following the demise of Chandragupta, Ashoka became Emperor who ruled between 268 BC – 232 BC. Ashoka was
followed for 50 years by a succession of weaker kings. In 185 BC, the Shunga coup took place in which the emperor was killed, thus
ending Mauryan rule. The fall of the Mauryas left theKhyber Pass unguarded, and a wave of invasions followed.

The Greco-Bactrian king, Demetrius, capitalized on the break-up, and he conquered the Indus Valley in around 180 BC, forming the
Indo-Greek Kingdom.

Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
By the time Chandragupta's grandson Ashoka had become emperor, Buddhism was
flourishing in the Indus Valley and much of the eastern Seleucid Empire. In 250 BC,
the eastern part of the Seleucid Empire broke away to form the Greco-Bactrian
Kingdom by Diodotus of Bactria. Some of the Greeks apparently also converted to
Buddhism during this period.

Here in the king's domain among the Greeks, the Kambojas, the
Nabhakas, the Nabhapamkits, the Bhojas, the Pitinikas, the Andhras
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
and the Palidas, everywhere people are following Beloved-of-the-
Gods' instructions in Dharma. (Edicts of Ashoka, 13th Rock Edict, S.
Dhammika).

Although Buddhism was flourishing, Brahminism was resisting Buddhist advances in the Ganges Plain and when Ashoka himself
converted to Buddhism, he directed his efforts towards expanding the faith in the Indo-Iranian and Hellenistic worlds. According to
the Edicts of Ashoka, set in stone, some of them written in Greek, he sent Buddhist emissaries to the Greek lands in Asia and as far as
the Mediterranean. The edicts name each of the rulers of theHellenistic world at the time.

The conquest by Dharma has been won here, on the borders, and even six hundred yojanas (4,000 miles) away, where
the Greek king Antiochos rules, beyond there where the four kings named Ptolemy, Antigonos, Magas and Alexander
rule, likewise in the south among the Cholas, the Pandyas, and as far as Tamraparni. (Edicts of Ashoka, 13th Rock
Edict, S. Dhammika).

Furthermore, according to Pali sources, some of Ashoka's emissaries were Greek-Buddhist monks, indicating close religious
exchanges between the two cultures:
 When the thera (elder) Moggaliputta, the illuminator of the religion of the Conqueror (Ashoka), had brought the
(third) council to an end… he sent forth theras, one here and one there: …and to Aparantaka (the "Western countries"
corresponding to Gujarat and Sindh) he sent the Greek (Yona) named Dhammarakkhita... and the thera Maharakkhita
he sent into the country of the Yona. (Mahavamsa, XII).

When Ashoka died in 232 BC, Mauryan hold on the Indus began weakening as Brahminism was attempting to retake control of the
Ganges heartland though the Shunga revolt. As such, the Mauryans began retreating out of the Indus back east towards Pataliputra
(Patna) to protect the imperial capital. This left most of the Indus Valley unguarded and most importantly left the Khyber Pass open
to invasion. In 230 BC, Euthydemus overthrew Diodotus to establish himself as king. The Greco-Bactrians were allied with the
Mauryans and had kept close relations with Ashoka.

Following the collapse of the Mauryans, the first Brahmin emperor of the Shunga Empire (Pushyamitra Shunga) is believed to have
persecuted Buddhists and contributed to a resurgence of Brahmanism that forced Buddhism outwards to Kashmir, Gandhara and
Bactria.[47] Buddhist scripture such as the Asokavadana account of the Divyavadana and ancient Tibetan historian Taranatha have
written about persecution of Buddhists. Pushyamitra is said to have burned down Buddhist monasteries, destroyed stupas, massacred
Buddhist monks and put rewards on their heads, but some consider these stories as probable exaggerations.[47][48] The Shunga revolt
was viewed as a persecution of Buddhists by Euthydemus.[49] Demetrius, the son of Euthydemus, "invaded" the Indus Valley in 180
BC. Historians now suggest that the invasion was intended to show their support for the Mauryans and thus, the
Indo-Greek Kingdom
was established in 170 BC, in order to prevent the Shungas from advancing the Indusalley.
V

Classical period – Middle Kingdoms

Indo-Greek Kingdom
The Indo-Greek Menander I (reigned 155–130 BCE) drove the Greco-Bactrians out
of Gandhara and beyond the Hindu Kush, becoming king shortly after his victory.
His territories covered Panjshir and Kapisa in modern Afghanistan and extended to
the Punjab region, with many tributaries to the south and east, possibly as far as
Mathura. The capital Sagala (modern Sialkot) prospered greatly under Menander's
rule and Menander is one of the few Bactrian kings mentioned by Greek authors.[50]
The classical Buddhist text Milinda Pañha praises Menander, saying there was "none
equal to Milinda in all India".[51] His empire survived him in a fragmented manner
until the last independent Greek king, Strato II, disappeared around 10 CE. Around Indo-Greek Kingdoms in 100 BC.
125 BCE, the Greco-Bactrian king Heliocles, son of Eucratides, fled from the
Yuezhi invasion of Bactria and relocated to Gandhara, pushing the Indo-Greeks east
of the Jhelum River. The last known Indo-Greek ruler was Theodamas, from the Bajaur area of Gandhara, mentioned on a 1st-
century CE signet ring, bearing the Kharoṣṭhī inscription "Su Theodamasa" ("Su" was the Greek transliteration of the Kushan royal
title "Shau" ("Shah" or "King")). Various petty kings ruled into the early 1st century CE, until the conquests by the Scythians,
Parthians and the Yuezhi, who founded the Kushan dynasty.

Indo-Scythian Kingdom
The Indo-Scythians were descended from the Sakas (Scythians) who migrated from southern Central Asia into Pakistan and
Arachosia from the middle of the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century BCE. They displaced the Indo-Greeks and ruled a kingdom that
stretched from Gandhara to Mathura. The power of the Saka rulers started to decline in the 2nd century CE after the Scythians were
defeated by the south Indian Emperor Gautamiputra Satakarni of the Satavahana dynasty.[52][53] Later the Saka kingdom was
completely destroyed byChandragupta II of the Gupta Empire from eastern India in the 4th century.[54]
Indo-Parthian Kingdom
The Indo-Parthian Kingdom was ruled by
the Gondopharid dynasty, named after its
eponymous first ruler Gondophares. They
ruled parts of present-day Afghanistan,
Pakistan,[55] and northwestern India,
during or slightly before the 1st century
AD. For most of their history, the leading
Gandhara Buddhist reliquary with Gondopharid kings held Taxila (in the
content, including Indo-Parthian present Punjab province of Pakistan) as
coins. 1st century CE.
their residence, but during their last few
years of existence the capital shifted The Bimaran casket,
representing the Buddha
between Kabul and Peshawar. These kings have traditionally been referred to as Indo-
surrounded by Brahma (left)
Parthians, as their coinage was often inspired by the Arsacid dynasty, but they probably
and Śakra (right) was found
belonged to a wider groups of Iranic tribes who lived east of Parthia proper, and there is no inside a stupa with coins of
evidence that all the kings who assumed the title Gondophares, which means "Holder of Azes inside. British Museum.
Glory", were even related. Christian writings claim that the Apostle Saint Thomas – an
architect and skilled carpenter – had a long sojourn in the court of king Gondophares, had
built a palace for the king at Taxila and had also ordained leaders for the Church before leaving for Indus Valley in a chariot, for
sailing out to eventually reachMalabar Coast.

Kushan Empire
The Kushan Empire expanded out of what is now Afghanistan into the northwest of the
subcontinent under the leadership of their first emperor, Kujula Kadphises, about the
middle of the 1st century CE. They came of an Indo-European language speaking
Central Asian tribe called the Yuezhi,[56][57] a branch of which was known as the
Kushans. By the time of his grandson, Kanishka the Great, the empire spread to
encompass much of Afghanistan,[58] and then the northern parts of the Indian
subcontinent at least as far as Saketa and Sarnath near Varanasi (Benares).[59]

Emperor Kanishka was a great patron of Buddhism; however, as Kushans expanded

southward, the deities[60] of their later coinage came to reflect its new Hindu
majority.[61]

They played an important role in the establishment of Buddhism in India and its spread
to Central Asia and China.
Kushan territories (full line) and
maximum extent of Kushan
Historian Vincent Smith said about Kanishka:
dominions under Kanishka
(dotted line), according to the
[62]
He played the part of a second Ashoka in the history of Buddhism. Rabatak inscription.

The empire linked the Indian Ocean maritime trade with the commerce of the Silk Road
through the Indus valley, encouraging long-distance trade, particularly between China and Rome. The Kushans brought new trends to
the budding and blossomingGandhara Art, which reached its peak during Kushan Rule.

H.G. Rowlinson commented:

[63]
The Kushan period is a fitting prelude to the Age of the Guptas.
By the 3rd century, their empire in India was disintegrating and their last known great
emperor was Vasudeva I.[64][65]

Sasanian Empire
Kushanshahr
Paradan
Early Mahayana Buddhist triad.
Turgistan
From left to right, a Kushan
devotee, Maitreya, the Buddha,
Avalokitesvara, and a Buddhist
Gupta Empire
monk. 2nd–3rd century,
The Gupta Empire existed approximately from 320 to 600 CE and covered much of the Gandhara.
broad swathe of northern South Asia, including modern Pakistan but excluding the
southern peninsular region.[66] Founded by Maharaja Sri-Gupta, the dynasty was the
model of a classical civilization[67] and was marked by extensive inventions and
discoveries.[68]

The high points of this cultural creativity are magnificent architectures, sculptures
and paintings.[69][70][71] Science and political administration reached new heights
during the Gupta era.[72] Strong trade ties also made the region an important cultural
center and set the region up as a base that would influence nearby kingdoms and
regions in Burma, Sri Lanka, Maritime Southeast Asiaand Indochina.[73]

The empire gradually declined due in part to loss of territory and imperial authority
caused by their own erstwhile feudatories, and from the invasion by the Hunas from
Central Asia.[74] After the collapse of the Gupta Empire in the 6th century, South
Asia was again ruled by numerous regional kingdoms. A minor line of the Gupta The Gupta Empire at its maximum
extent.
clan continued to rule Magadha after the disintegration of the empire. These Guptas
were ultimately ousted by the Vardhana king Harsha, who established an empire in
the first half of the 7th century.

Rai dynasty
According to Arab chroniclers, the Rai Dynasty of Sindh (c. 489–632) arose after the end of Ror Dynasty. They were practitioners of
Hinduism and Buddhism. At the time of Rai Diwaji (Devaditya), influence of the Rai-state exdended from Kashmir in the east,
Makran and Debal (Karachi) port in the south, Kandahar, Sistan, Suleyman, Ferdan and Kikanan hills in the north.

Hephthalite Empire
The Indo-Hephthalites (or Alchon Huns) were a nomadic confederation in Central Asia during the late antiquity period. The Alchon
Huns established themselves in modern-day Afghanistan by the first half of the 5th century. Led by the Hun military leader
Toramana, they overran the northern region of Pakistan and North India. Toramana's son Mihirakula, a Saivite Hindu, moved up to
near Pataliputra to the east and Gwalior to central India. Hiuen Tsiang narrates Mihirakula's merciless persecution of Buddhists and
destruction of monasteries, though the description is disputed as far as the authenticity is concerned.[75] The Huns were defeated by
the alliance of Indian rulers, Maharaja (Great King) Yasodharman of Malwa and Gupta Emperor Narasimhagupta in the 6th century.
.[76]
Some of them were driven out of India and others were assimilated in the Indian society

Brahmin dynasty
The Brahmin dynasty emerged with the ascent of Chach of Alor, a former chamberlain of Rai
Sahasi II ascended to the throne by marrying the king's widow. Chach expanded the kingdom
of Sindh, and his successful efforts to subjugate surrounding monarchies and ethnic groups
into an empire covering the entire Indus valley and beyond were recorded in the Chach Nama.
The Chacha dynasty lasted till 712 when Chacha's son Raja Dahir was killed in battle against
the Umayyad forces.

Rajput dynasties
The territory of modern Pakistan have been home to many Rajput dynasties during 7th to 20th
century.[77][78]

Vishnu Nicolo Seal

Arab Caliphate representing Vishnu with a
worshipper (probably
Although soon after conquering the Middle East from the Byzantine empire and the Sassanid
Mihirakula), 4th–6th century
Empire, Arab forces had reached the present western regions of Pakistan, during the period of
CE. The inscription in
Rashidun caliphacy, it was in 712 CE that a young Arab general called Muhammad bin Qasim cursive Bactrian reads:
conquered most of the Indus region for the Umayyad empire, to be made the "As-Sindh" "Mihira, Vishnu and Shiva".
province with its capital at Al-Mansurah, 72 km (45 mi) north of modern Hyderabad in Sindh. British Museum.
But the instability of the empire and the defeat in various wars with north Indian and south
Indian rulers including the Caliphate campaigns in India, where the
Hindu rulers like the south Indian Emperor Vikramaditya II of the
Chalukya dynasty and Nagabhata of the Pratihara Dynasty defeated
the Umayyad Arabs, they were contained till only Sindh and
southern Punjab. There was gradual conversion to Islam in the south,
especially amongst the native Hindu and Buddhist majority, but in
areas north of Multan, Hindus and Buddhists remained numerous.[79]
By the end of the 10th century CE, the region was ruled by several
The expansion of the Arab Caliphate.
Hindu Shahi kings who would be subdued by theGhaznavids.
Expansion under Prophet Muhammad, 622–
632
Kabul Shahi Expansion during the Rashidun Caliphate,
632–661
The Kabul Shahi dynasties ruled the Kabul Valley and Gandhara
Expansion during the Umayyad Caliphate,
(modern-day Pakistan and Afghanistan) from the decline of the
661–750
Kushan Empire in the 3rd century to the early 9th century.[80] The
Shahis are generally split up into two eras: the Buddhist Shahis and
the Hindu Shahis, with the change-over thought to have occurred sometime around 870. The kingdom was known as the Kabul
Shahan or Ratbelshahan from 565–670, when the capitals were located inKapisa and Kabul, and later Udabhandapura, also known as
Hund[81] for its new capital.[82][83][84]

The Hindu Shahis under Jayapala, is known for his struggles in defending his kingdom against the Ghaznavids in the modern-day
eastern Afghanistan and Pakistan region. Jayapala saw a danger in the consolidation of the Ghaznavids and invaded their capital city
of Ghazni both in the reign of Sebuktigin and in that of his son Mahmud, which initiated the Muslim Ghaznavid and Hindu Shahi
struggles.[85] Sebuk Tigin, however, defeated him, and he was forced to pay an indemnity.[85] Jayapala defaulted on the payment and
took to the battlefield once more.[85] Jayapala however, lost control of the entire region between the Kabul Valley and Indus
River.[86]

Before his struggle began Jaipal had raised a large army of Punjabi Hindus. When Jaipal went to the Punjab region, his army was
raised to 100,000 horsemen and an innumerable host of foot soldiers. According to
Ferishta:
 "The two armies having met on the confines of Lumghan, Subooktugeen ascended a hill to view the forces of Jeipal,
which appeared in extent like the boundless ocean, and in number like the ants or the locusts of the wilderness. But
Subooktugeen considered himself as a wolf about to attack a flock of sheep: calling, therefore, his chiefs together, he
encouraged them to glory, and issued to each his commands. His soldiers, though few in number, were divided into
squadrons of five hundred men each, which were directed to attack successively, one particular point of the Hindoo
[86]
line, so that it might continually have to encounter fresh troops."

However, the army was hopeless in battle against the western forces, particularly against the young Mahmud of Ghazni.[86] In the
year 1001, soon after Sultan Mahmud came to power and was occupied with the Qarakhanids north of the Hindu Kush, Jaipal
attacked Ghazni once more and upon suffering yet another defeat by the powerful Ghaznavid forces, near present-day Peshawar.
After the Battle of Peshawar, he committed suicide because his subjects thought he had brought disaster and disgrace to the Shahi
dynasty.[85][86]

Jayapala was succeeded by his son Anandapala,[85] who along with other succeeding generations of the Shahiya dynasty took part in
various unsuccessful campaigns against the advancing Ghaznvids but were unsuccessful. The Hindu rulers eventually exiled
themselves to the Kashmir Siwalik Hills.[86]

Medieval period

Ghaznavid dynasty
In 997 CE, the Turkic ruler Mahmud of Ghazni, took over the Ghaznavid dynasty empire established by his father, Sebuktegin, a
Turkic origin ruler. Starting from the city of Ghazni (now in Afghanistan), Mehmood conquered the bulk of Khorasan, marched on
Peshawar against the Hindu Shahis in Kabul in 1005, and followed it by the conquests of Punjab (1007), deposed the Shia Ismaili
rulers of Multan, (1011), Kashmir (1015) and Qanoch (1017). By the end of his reign in 1030, Mahmud's empire briefly extended
from Kurdistan in the west to the Yamuna river in the east, and the Ghaznavid dynasty lasted until 1187. Contemporary historians
such as Abolfazl Beyhaqi and Ferdowsi described extensive building work in Lahore, as well as Mahmud's support and patronage of
learning, literature and the arts.

Mahmud's successors, known as the Ghaznavids, ruled for 157 years. Their kingdom gradually shrank in size, and was racked by
bitter succession struggles. The Hindu Rajput kingdoms of western India reconquered the eastern Punjab, and by the 1160s, the line
of demarcation between the Ghaznavid state and the Hindu kingdoms approximated to the present-day boundary between India and
Pakistan. The Ghurid Empire of central Afghanistan occupied Ghazni around 1160, and the Ghaznavid capital was shifted to Lahore.
1 [87]
Later Muhammad Ghori conquered the Ghaznavid kingdom, occupying Lahore in187.

Soomra dynasty
The Rajput Soomra dynasty replaced the Arab Habbari dynasty in the 10th century. The dynasty lasted until the mid-13th century.
The Soomras are one the longest running dynasties in thehistory of Sindh, lasting 325 years.[88]

Delhi Sultanate
In 1160, Muhammad Ghori, a Turkic ruler, conquered Ghazni from the Ghaznavids and became its governor in 1173. He for the first
time named Sindh Tambade Gatar roughly translated as the red passage. He marched eastwards into the remaining Ghaznavid
territory and Gujarat in the 1180s, but was rebuffed by Gujarat's Hindu Chaulukya (Solanki) rulers. In 1186–87, he conquered
Lahore, bringing the last of Ghaznevid territory under his control and ending the Ghaznavid empire. Muhammad Ghori's successors
established the Delhi Sultanate. The Turkic origin Mamluk Dynasty, (mamluk means "owned" and referred to the Turkic youths
bought and trained as soldiers who became rulers throughout the Islamic world), seized the throne of the Sultanate in 1211. Several
Central Asian Turkic and a Lodhi Pashtun dynasty ruled their empires from Delhi: the Mamluk (1211–90), the Khalji (1290–1320),
the Tughlaq (1320–1413), the Sayyid (1414–1451) and the Lodhi (1451–1526).[89] Although some kingdoms remained independent
of Delhi – in Gujarat, Malwa (central India), Bengal and Deccan – almost all of the Indus plain came under the rule of these large
sultanates.

The sultans (emperors) of Delhi enjoyed cordial relations with rulers in the Near East but owed them no allegiance. While the sultans
ruled from urban centers, their military camps and trading posts provided the nuclei for many towns that sprang up in the countryside.
Close interaction with local populations led to cultural exchange and the resulting "Indo-Islamic" fusion has left a lasting imprint and
legacy in South Asian architecture, music, literature, life style and religious customs. In addition, the language of Urdu (literally
meaning "horde" or "camp" in various Turkic dialects, but more likely "city" in the South Asian context) was born during the Delhi
Sultanate period, as a result of the mingling of speakers of nativePrakrits, Persian, Turkish and Arabic languages.

Perhaps the greatest contribution of the Sultanate was its temporary success in insulating South Asia from the Mongol invasion from
Central Asia in the 13th century; nonetheless the sultans eventually lost Afghanistan and western Pakistan to the Mongols (see the
Ilkhanate dynasty). The Sultanate declined after the invasion of Emperor Timur, who founded the Timurid Empire, and was
eventually conquered in 1526 by theMughal Emperor Babar.

The Delhi Sultanate and later Mughal Empire attracted Muslim refugees, nobles, technocrats, bureaucrats, soldiers, traders, scientists,
architects, artisans, teachers, poets, artists, theologians and Sufis from the rest of the Muslim world and they migrated and settled in
the South Asia. During the reign of Sultan Ghyasuddin Balban (1266–1286) thousands of Central Asian Muslims sought asylum
including more than 15 sovereigns and their nobles due to the Mongol invasion of Khwarezmia and Eastern Iran. At the court of
Sultan Iltemish in Delhi the first wave of these Muslim refugees escaping from the Central Asian genocide by the Mongol armies of
Genghis Khan, brought administrators from Iran, painters from China, theologians from Samarkand, Nishapur and Bukhara, divines
and saints from the rest of Muslim world, craftsmen and men and maidens from every region, notably doctors adept in Greek
medicine and philosophers from everywhere.

Mongol invasions
The Chagatai Khanate was a Mongol and later Turkicized khanate that comprised the lands ruled by Chagatai Khan second son of
Genghis Khan, and his descendants and successors. Initially it was a part of the Mongol Empire, but it became a functionally separate
khanate with the fragmentation of the Mongol Empireafter 1259.

The Ilkhanate was established as a khanate that formed the southwestern sector of the Mongol Empire, ruled by the Mongol House of
Hulagu Ilk Khanate, that reached from Afghanistan and western Pakistan to urkey.
T [90]

Samma dynasty
The Rajput Samma dynasty replaced the Rajput Soomra dynasty. They gained control of Thatta from the Soomra around 1335 A.D.
The dynasty is believed to have originated inSaurashtra, and later migrated toSindh. During the Sammas saw the rise of Thatta as an
important commercial and cultural center. At the time the Portuguese took control of the trading center of Hormuz in 1514 CE, trade
from the Sindh accounted for nearly 10% of their customs revenue, and they described Thatta as one of the richest cities in the world.
Thatta's prosperity was based partly on its own high-quality cotton and silk textile industry, partly on export of goods from further
inland in the Punjab and northern India.[91]

The Samma period contributed significantly to the evolution of the Indo-Islamic architectural style. Thatta is famous for its
necropolis, which covers 10 square km on theMakli Hill.[92]

Mughal Empire
In 1526, Babur, a Timurid descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan from Fergana Valley (modern-day Uzbekistan), swept across the
Khyber Pass and founded the Mughal Empire, covering modern-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.[93] The Mughals
were descended from Central Asian Turks (with significant Mongol admixture). However, his son Humayun was defeated by the
Pashtun warrior Sher Shah Suri who was from Bihar state of India, in the year 1540,
and Humayun was forced to retreat to Kabul. After Sher Shah died, his son Islam
Shah Suri became the ruler, on whose death his prime minister, Hemu ascended the
throne and ruled North India from Delhi for one month. He was defeated by
Emperor Akbar's forces in the Second Battle of Panipaton 6 November 1556.

Akbar the Great, was both a capable ruler and an early proponent of religious and
ethnic tolerance and favored an early form of multiculturalism. He declared "Amari" Mughal Empire at its peak
or non-killing of animals in the holy days of Jainism and rolled back the jizya tax
imposed upon non-Islamic mainly Hindu people. The Mughal dynasty ruled most of
the South Asia by 1600. The Mughal emperors married local royalty and allied themselves with local maharajas. For a short time in
the late 16th century, Lahore was the capital of the empire. The architectural legacy of the Mughals in Lahore includes the Shalimar
Gardens built by the fifth Emperor Shahjahan, and the Badshahi Mosque built by the sixth Emperor, Aurangzeb, who is regarded as
the last Great Mughal Emperor as he expanded the domain to its zenith. After his demise, different regions of modern Pakistan began
asserting independence. The empire went into a slow decline after 1707 and its last sovereign, ruling around Delhi region.

Rise of Sikhism
Guru Nanak, Sikhism's founder, was born into a Hindu Khatri family in the village of Rāi Bhōi dī Talwandī (present day Nankana,
near Sial in modern-day Pakistan). He was an influential religious and social reformer in north India and the saintly founder of a
modern monotheistic order and first of the ten divine Gurus of Sikh religion. At the age of 70, he died at Kartarpur, Punjab of
modern-day Pakistan.

Durrani Empire
In 1761, following the victory at the Third battle of Panipat between the Durrani and the Maratha Empire, Ahmad Shah Abdali
[94]
captured remnants of the Maratha Empire inPunjab and Kashmir regions and had re-consolidated control over them.

Maratha Empire
In 1758, the Maratha Empire's general Raghunath Rao attacked and conquered Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Kashmir and drove
out Timur Shah Durrani, the son and viceroy of Ahmad Shah Abdali. In 1759, the Marathas and its allies decisively won the Battle of
Lahore, defeating the Durranis.[95][96] Lahore, Dera Ghazi Khan, Multan, Peshawar, Kashmir, and other subahs on the south eastern
[97]
side of Afghanistan's border fell under the Maratha rule.

Sikh Empire
The Sikh Empire (1799–1849) was formed on the foundations of the Punjabi Army by Maharaja Ranjit Singh who was proclaimed
"Sarkar-i-Khalsa", and was referred to as the "Maharaja of Lahore".[98] It consisted of a collection of autonomous Punjabi Misls,
which were governed by Misldars,[99] mainly in the Punjab region. The empire extended from the Khyber Pass in the west, to
Kashmir in the north, to Multan in the south and Kapurthala in the east. The main geographical footprint of the empire was the
Punjab region. The formation of the empire was a watershed and represented formidable consolidation of Sikh military power and
resurgence of local culture, which had been dominated for hundreds of years by Indo-Afghan and Indo-Mughal hybrid cultures.

The foundations of the Sikh Empire, during the time of the Punjabi Army, could be defined as early as 1707, starting from the death
of Aurangzeb. The fall of the Mughal Empire provided opportunities for the Punjabi army to lead expeditions against the Mughals
and Pashtuns. This led to a growth of the army, which was split into different Punjabi armies and then semi-independent "misls".
Each of these component armies were known as a misl, each controlling different areas and cities. However, in the period from 1762
 to 1799, Sikh rulers of their misls appeared to be coming into their own. The formal start of the
Sikh Empire began with the disbandment of the Punjab Army by the time of coronation of Ranjit
Singh in 1801, creating a unified political state. All the misl leaders who were affiliated with the
Army were from Punjab's nobility.[99][100]

Maharaja Ranjit Singh,

born in Gujranwala,
Punjab. He was referred
to as the "Maharaja of
Lahore".

British colonization
Most of the territory of modern Pakistan was occupied beginning first by the East India Company
– and continued under the post-Sepoy Mutiny direct rule of Queen Victoria of the British Empire
– through a series of wars, the main ones being the Battle of Miani (1843) in Sindh, the gruelling
Anglo-Sikh Wars (1845–1849) and the Anglo-Afghan Wars (1839–1919), to remain a part of
British Indian Empire until the independence in 1947.

The physical presence of the British was minimal; they employed "Divide and Rule" political
strategy to remain in power.[101] The administrative units ofBritish India under the tenancy or the
sovereignty of either the East India Company or the British Crown lasted between 1612 and 1947.

Queen Victoria

Independence movement

Early period of Pakistan Movement

In 1877, Syed Ameer Ali had formed the Central National Muhammadan Association to work towards the political advancement of
the Indian Muslims, who had suffered grievously in 1857, in the aftermath of the failed Sepoy Mutiny against the East India
Company; the British were seen as foreign invaders. But the or
ganization declined towards the end of the 19th century
.

In 1885, the Indian National Congress was founded as a forum, which later became a party, to promote a nationalist cause.[102]
Although the Congress attempted to include the Muslim community in the struggle for independence from the British rule – and
some Muslims were very active in the Congress – the majority of Muslim leaders did not trust the party
.

A turning point came in 1900, when the British administration in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh acceded to Hindu demands
and made Hindi, the version of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script, the official language. The proselytisation
conducted in the region by the activists of a new Hindu reformist movement also stirred Muslim's concerns about their faith.
 Eventually, the Muslims feared that the Hindu majority would seek to suppress the rights of
Muslims in the region following the departure of the British.

Muslim League
The All-India Muslim League was founded by Shaiiq-e-Mustafa in 30 December 1906, in the
aftermath of division of Bengal, on the sidelines of the annual All India Muhammadan
Educational Conferencein Shahbagh, Dhaka East Bengal.[103] The meeting was attended by three
thousand delegates and presided over by Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk. It addressed the issue of
safeguarding interests of Muslims and finalised a programme. A resolution, moved by Nawab
Salimullah and seconded by Hakim Ajmal Khan. Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk(conservative), declared:

Lord Minto met with the

The Musalmans are only a fifth in number as compared with the total population
Muslim delegation in
of the country, and it is manifest that if at any remote period the British
June 1906. The Minto-
Morley Reforms of 1909 government ceases to exist in India, then the rule of India would pass into the
called for separate hands of that community which is nearly four times as large as ourselves ... our
Muslim electorates. life, our property, our honour, and our faith will all be in great danger, when even
now that a powerful British administration is protecting its subjects, we the
Musalmans have to face most serious difficulties in safe-guarding our interests
from the grasping hands of our neighbors.[104]

The constitution and principles of the League were contained in theGreen Book, written by Maulana Mohammad Ali. Its goals at this
stage did not include establishing an independent Muslim state, but rather concentrated on protecting Muslim liberties and rights,
promoting understanding between the Muslim community and other Indians, educating the Muslim and Indian community at large on
the actions of the government, and discouraging violence. However, several factors over the next thirty years, including sectarian
violence, led to a re-evaluation of the League's aims.[105][106] Among those Muslims in the Congress who did not initially join the
League was Jinnah, a prominent statesman and barrister in Bombay. This was because the first article of the League's platform was
"To promote among the Mussalmans (Muslims) of India, feelings of loyalty to the British Government". The League remained loyal
to the British administration for five years until the British decided to reverse the partition of Bengal. The Muslim League saw this
British decision as partial to Hindus.[107]

In 1907, a vocal group of Hindu hard-liners within the Indian National Congress
movement separated from it and started to pursue a pro-Hindu movement openly. This
group was spearheaded by the famous trio of Lal-Bal-Pal – Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal
Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal of Punjab, Bombay and Bengal provinces
respectively. Their influence spread rapidly among other like minded Hindus – they
called it Hindu nationalism – and it became a cause of serious concern for Muslims.
However, Jinnah did not join the League until 1913, when the party changed its platform
to one of Indian independence, as a reaction against the British decision to reverse the
1905 Partition of Bengal, which the League regarded it as a betrayal of the Bengali
Muslims.[108] After vociferous protests of the Hindu population and violence
engineered by secret groups, such as Anushilan Samiti and its offshoot Jugantar of
Aurobindo and his brother etc., the British had decided to reunite Bengal again. Till this
stage, Jinnah believed in Mutual co-operation to achieve an independent, united 'India',
although he argued that Muslims should be guaranteed one-third of the seats in any
Indian Parliament.

George VI, Emperor of India

The League gradually became the leading representative body of Indian Muslims.
Jinnah became its president in 1916, and negotiated the Lucknow Pact with the
Congress leader, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, by which Congress conceded the principle of separate electorates and weighted representation
[109]
 for the Muslim community.[109] However, Jinnah broke with the Congress in 1920
when the Congress leader, Mohandas Gandhi, launched a law violating Non-
Cooperation Movement against the British, which a temperamentally law-abiding
barrister Jinnah disapproved of. Jinnah also became convinced that the Congress
would renounce its support for separate electorates for Muslims, which indeed it did
in 1928. In 1927, the British proposed a constitution for India as recommended by
the Simon Commission, but they failed to reconcile all parties. The British then
turned the matter over to the League and the Congress, and in 1928 an All-Parties
Congress was convened in Delhi. The attempt failed, but two more conferences were
held, and at the Bombay conference in May, it was agreed that a small committee
should work on the constitution. The prominent Congress leader Motilal Nehru
headed the committee, which included two Muslims, Syed Ali Imam and Shoaib
Quereshi; Motilal's son, Pt Jawaharlal Nehru, was its secretary. The League,
however, rejected the committee's report, the so-calledNehru Report, arguing that its
proposals gave too little representation (one quarter) to Muslims – the League had
Allama Sir Muhammad Iqbal
demanded at least one-third representation in the legislature. Jinnah announced a
"parting of the ways" after reading the report, and relations between the Congress
and the League began to sour.

Muslim homeland – "Now or Never"

Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman seconding
the Resolution with Jinnah andAli
Khan presiding the session
The general elections held in the United Kingdom had already weakened the leftist
Labour Party led by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.[110] Furthermore, the
Labour Party's government was already weakened by the outcomes of World War I,
which fueled new hopes for progress towards self-government in British India.[110]
In fact, Mohandas K. Gandhi traveled to London to press the idea of "self-
government" in British India, and claimed to represent all Indians whilst duly
criticized the Muslim League as being sectarian and divisive.[110] After reviewing
the report of the Simon Commission, the Indian Congress initiated a massive Civil
Disobedience Movement under Gandhi; the Muslim League reserved their opinion
on the Simon Report declaring that the report was not final and the matters should
decided after consultations with the leaders representing all communities in
India.[110]

As the leaders of the Indian Congress were jailed and restrained, the Round-table conference was held, but these achieved little, since
Gandhi and the League were unable to reach a compromise.[110] Witnessing the events in the Round-table conference, Jinnah had
despaired of politics and particularly of getting mainstream parties like the Congress to be sensitive to minority priorities. During this
time in 1930, notable writer and poet, Muhammad Iqbal called for a separate and autonomous nation-state, who in his presidential
address to the 1930 convention of the Muslim League said that he felt that a separate Muslim state was essential in an otherwise
Hindu-dominated South Asia.[111][112]

The name of the nation-state was coined by the Cambridge University's political science student and Muslim nationalist Rahmat
Ali,[113] and was published on 28 January 1933 in the pamphlet Now or Never.[114] After coining the name of the nation-state, Ali
noticed that there is an acronym formed from the names of the "homelands" of Muslims in northwest India:

"P" for Punjab

"A" for Afghania (now known as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)
"K" for Kashmir
"S" for Sindh
"Tan" for Balochistan; thus forming "Pakistan".[115][116]
After the publication of the pamphlet, the Hindu Press vehemently criticized it,
and the word 'Pakstan' used in it.[117] Thus this word became a heated topic of
debate. With the addition of an "i" to improve the pronunciation, the name of
Pakistan grew in popularity and led to the commencement of the Pakistan
Movement, and consequently the creation of Pakistan.[118] In Urdu and
Persian languages, the name encapsulates the concept of Pak ("pure") and stan
("land") and hence a "Pure Land".[119] In 1935, the British government
proposed to hand over substantial power to elected Indian provincial
legislatures, with elections to be held in 1937.[120] After the elections the
League took office in Bengal and Punjab, but the Congress won office in most
of the other provinces, and refused to devolve power with the League in
provinces with large Muslim minorities citing technical difficulties.

Meanwhile, Muslim ideologues for independence also felt vindicated by the

presidential address of V.D. Savarkar at the 19th session of the famous Hindu
nationalist party Hindu Mahasabha in 1937. In it, this legendary revolutionary
Dream of Iqbal and Ali's Now or Never
– popularly called Veer Savarkar and known as the iconic father of the Hindu idealized the merger of thefour provinces
fundamentalist ideology – propounded the seminal ideas of his Two Nation into a nation-state, called Pakistan.
Theory or ethnic exclusivism, which influenced Jinnah profoundly
.

1940 Resolution
In 1940, Jinnah called a general session of theMuslim League in Lahore to discuss the situation that had arisen due to the outbreak of
World War II and the Government of India joining the war without consulting Indian leaders. The meeting was also aimed at
analyzing the reasons that led to the defeat of the Muslim League in the general election of 1937 in the Muslim majority provinces. In
his speech, Jinnah criticized the Indian Congress and the nationalists, and espoused the Two-Nation Theory and the reasons for the
demand for separate homelands.[121] Sikandar Hayat Khan, the Chief Minister of Punjab, drafted the original resolution, but
disavowed the final version,[122] that had emerged after protracted redrafting by the Subject Committee of the Muslim League. The
final text unambiguously rejected the concept of a United India because of increasing inter-religious violence[123] and recommended
the creation of independent states.[124] The resolution was moved in the general session by Shere-Bangla Bengali nationalist, AKF
Haq, the Chief Minister of Bengal, supported by Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman and other leaders and was adopted on 23 March
1940.[125] The Resolution read as follows:

No constitutional plan would be workable or acceptable to the Muslims unless geographical contiguous units are
demarcated into regions which should be so constituted with such territorial readjustments as may be necessary. That
the areas in which the Muslims are numerically in majority as in the North-Western and Eastern zones of India should
be grouped to constitute independent states in which the constituent units shall be autonomous and sovereign ... That
adequate, effective and mandatory safeguards shall be specifically provided in the constitution for minorities in the
units and in the regions for the protection of their religious, cultural, economic, political, administrative and other
rights of the minorities, with their consultation. Arrangements thus should be made for the security of Muslims where
they were in a minority.[126]

Final phase of the Pakistan Movement

Important leaders in the Muslim League highlighted that Pakistan would be a 'New Medina', in other words the second Islamic state
established after the Prophet Muhammad's creation of an Islamic state in Medina. Pakistan was popularly envisaged as an Islamic
utopia, a successor to the defunct Turkish Caliphate and a leader and protector of the entire Islamic world. Islamic scholars debated
[127][128]
over whether it was possible for the proposed Pakistan to truly become an Islamic state.

The Working Committee of the
Muslim League in Lahore (1940)
Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi, Mufti Muhammad Shafi and Maulana Shabbir Ahmad Usmani were supportive of the Muslim League's
demand to create a separate Pakistan.[136][131]
While the Congress' top leadership had been in prison following the 1942 Quit India
Movement, there was intense debate among Indian Muslims over the creation of a
separate homeland.[128] The majority of Barelvis[129] and Barelvi ulema supported
the creation of Pakistan[130] and pirs and Sunni ulema were mobilized by the
Muslim League to demonstrate that India's Muslim masses wanted a separate
country.[131] The Barelvis believed that any co-operation with Hindus would be
counter productive.[132] On the other hand, most Deobandis, who were led by
Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani, were opposed to the creation of Pakistan and the
two-nation theory. According to them Muslims and Hindus could be one nation and
Muslims were only a nation of themselves in the religious sense and not in the
territorial sense.[133][134][135] At the same time some Deobandi ulema such as

Muslims who were living in provinces where they were demographically a minority, such as the United Provinces where the Muslim
League enjoyed popular support, were assured by Jinnah that they could remain in India, migrate to Pakistan or continue living in
India but as Pakistani citizens. The Muslim League had also proposed the hostage population theory. According to this theory the
safety of India's Muslim minority would be ensured by turning the Hindu minority in the proposed Pakistan into a 'hostage'
[128]
population who would be visited by retributive violence if Muslims in India were harmed.

In the Constituent Assembly elections of 1946, the Muslim League won 425 out of 496 seats reserved for Muslims (polling 89.2% of
total votes).[108] The Congress had hitherto refused to acknowledge the Muslim League's claim of being the representative of Indian
Muslims but finally acquiesced to the League's claim after the results of this election. The Muslim League's demand for Pakistan had
received overwhelming popular support from India's Muslims, especially those Muslims who were living in provinces such as UP
where they were a minority.[137]

The British had neither the will, nor the financial resources or military power, to hold India any longer but they were also determined
to avoid partition and for this purpose they arranged the Cabinet Mission Plan.[138] According to this plan India would be kept united
but would be heavily decentralized with separate groupings of Hindu and Muslim majority provinces. The Muslim League accepted
this plan as it contained the 'essence' of Pakistan but the Congress rejected it. After the failure of the Cabinet Mission Plan, Jinnah
called for Muslims to observe Direct Action Day to demand the creation of a separate Pakistan. The Direct Action Day morphed into
violent riots between Hindus and Muslims in Calcutta. The riots in Calcutta were followed by intense communal rioting between
Hindus and Muslims inNoakhali, Bihar, Garhmukteshwar and Rawalpindi.

The British Prime Minister Attlee appointed Lord Louis Mountbatten as India's last viceroy, to negotiate the independence of
Pakistan and India and immediate British withdrawal. British leaders including Mountbatten did not support the creation of Pakistan
but failed to convince Jinnah otherwise.[139][140] Mountbatten later confessed that he would most probably have sabotaged the
[141]
creation of Pakistan had he known that Jinnah was dying of tuberculosis.

In early 1947 the British had announced their desire to grant India its independence by June 1948. However, Lord Mountbatten
decided to advance the date. In a meeting in June, Nehru and Abul Kalam Azad representing the Congress, Jinnah representing the
Muslim League, B. R. Ambedkar representing the Untouchable community, and Master Tara Singh representing the Sikhs, agreed to
partition India along religious lines...

Independence from the British Empire

On 14 August 1947 (27th of Ramadan in 1366 of the Islamic Calendar) Pakistan gained independence. India gained independence the
following day. The two provinces of British India: Punjab and Bengal were divided along religious lines by the Radcliffe
Commission. Mountbatten is alleged to have influenced the Radcliffe Commission to draw the line in India's favour.[142][143]
Punjab's mostly Muslim western part went to Pakistan and its mostly Hindu/Sikh eastern part went to India but there were significant
Muslim minorities in Punjab's eastern section and likewise there were many Hindus and Sikhs living in Punjab's western areas.
Intense communal rioting in the Punjab forced the governments of India and Pakistan to agree to a forced population exchange of
Muslim and Hindu/Sikh minorities living in Punjab. After this population exchange only a few thousand low-caste Hindus remained
in Pakistan's side of Punjab and only a tiny Muslim population remained in the town of Malerkotla in India's part of Punjab.[144]
Political scientist Ishtiaq Ahmed says that although Muslims started the violence in Punjab, by the end of 1947 more Muslims had
been killed by Hindus and Sikhs in East Punjab than the number of Hindus and Sikhs who had been killed by Muslims in West
Punjab.[145][146]

More than ten million people migrated across the new borders and between 200,000–2,000,000[147][148][149] people died in the spate
of communal violence in the Punjab in what some scholars have described as a 'retributive genocide' between the religions.[150] The
Pakistani government claimed that 50,000 Muslim women were abducted and raped by Hindu and Sikh men and similarly the Indian
government claimed that Muslims abducted and raped 33,000 Hindu and Sikh women.[151][152][153] The two governments agreed to
repatriate abducted women and thousands of Hindu, Sikh and Muslim women were repatriated to their families in the 1950s. The
dispute over Kashmir escalated into thefirst war between India and Pakistan. The war is hitherto unresolved.

Post-Independence
On 12 March 1949, the second Constituent Assembly of Pakistan passed the Objectives Resolution which proclaimed that
sovereignty over the entire universe belongs to Allah alone.[154] The promulgation of the Constitution in 1956 led to Pakistan
declaring itself an Islamic republic (official name) with the adoption of a parliamentary democratic system of government. The
constitution transformed theGovernor-General of Pakistan into President of Pakistan (as head of state). Subsequently, Iskander Mirza
became the first Bengali president in 1956, but the democratic system was stalled after President Mirza imposedmilitary
a coup d'état
and appointed Ayub Khan as an enforcer of martial law. Two weeks later, President Mirza was ousted by Ayub Khan; his presidency
saw an era of internal instability and a second war with India in 1965. Economic grievances and political disenfranchisement in East
Pakistan led to violent political tensions and armed repression, escalating into a civil war[155] followed by the third war with India.
Pakistan's defeat in the war ultimately led to the secession ofEast Pakistan and the birth of Bangladesh.[156]

In 1972 the leftist Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) led by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto came to power and in 1973 Pakistan's elected parliament
promulgated the 1973 Constitution which proclaimed that no Pakistani law could contradict Islamic laws from the Quran and
Sunnah.[157] Bhutto faced vigorous opposition which united under the banner of Nizam e Mustafa (Rule of the Prophet) and
demanded the establishment of an Islamic state.[158] In 1977 Bhutto was deposed in a bloodless coup by General Zia-ul-Haq, who
Sharia law in Pakistan.[159]
became the country's third military president. Zia-ul-Haq committed himself to the establishment of

With the death of President Zia-ul-Haq in 1988, new general elections saw the victory of PPP led by Benazir Bhutto who was
elevated as the country's first female Prime Minister of Pakistan. Over the next decade, she alternated power with the conservative
Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML(N)) led by Nawaz Sharif, as the country's political and economic situation deteriorated. Military
tensions in the Kargil conflict[160] with India were followed by yet another coup d'état in 1999 in which General Pervez Musharraf
assumed executive powers.

Appointing himself President after the resignation of President Rafiq Tarar, Musharraf held nationwide general elections in 2002 to
transfer the executive powers to newly elected Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali, who was succeeded in the 2004 by Shaukat
Aziz. During the election campaign of 2007, Benazir Bhutto was assassinated which led to a series of important political
developments including the left-wing alliance led by the PPP. Historic general elections held in 2013 marked the return of PML(N)
with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif assuming the leadership of the country for the third time in its history
.

See also
History of Asia
History of South Asia
Islam in Pakistan
List of Presidents of Pakistan
List of Prime Ministers of Pakistan
Meluhha
 Muslim conquest in the Indian subcontinent
Politics of Pakistan
Timeline of Karachi
Timeline of Lahore
Timeline of Peshawar
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq's Islamization

Notes
1. Cite error: The named referenceGiosan was invoked but never defined (see thehelp page).
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edic culture include theOchre Coloured Pottery culture, the
Gandhara Grave culture, the Black and red ware cultureand the Painted Grey Ware culture.[25]
4. The precise time span of the period is uncertain.Philological and linguistic evidence indicates that theRigveda, the
oldest of the Vedas, was composed roughly between 1700 and 1100 BCE, also referred to as the early e Vdic
period.[26]

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External links
Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies, a peer-reviewed semiannual scholarly journal sponsored by the Khaldunia
Centre for Historical Research in Lahore, Pakistan.
National Fund for Cultural Heritage, Government of Pakistan
Story of Pakistan
A look at some of the historic moments that have shaped Pakistan
Quick History of Pakistan
History of Pakistan at Curlie (based on DMOZ)
Wikimedia Atlas of the History of Pakistan

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