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France returns Balochistan's smuggled archaeological artefacts to Pakistan

France seized artefacts under the 1970 UNESCO pact, which both France and Pakistan signed, to curb illicit trade.

A large number of smuggled archaeological artefacts of Balochistan which were seized by the French Customs in recent years and handed over to the Embassy of Pakistan, Paris have been sent to Pakistan, according to an official release.

These historically valuable artefacts were seized by the French Customs in pursuance of French obligations arising from UNESCO Convention of 1970 on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and transport of Ownership of Cultural property, to which both Pakistan and France are signatories.

A lot of effort and coordination from both sides led to the safe handing over and transfer of the artefacts. This also marks bilateral cooperation between Pakistan and France in the cultural domain.

For Pakistan, the return of these rare and valuable artefacts holds immense significance as these serve as a tangible link to ancient history.

source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/2546696/smuggled-archaeological-artefacts-of-balochistan-seized-by-french-authorities-return-to-pakistan

Assalam O Alaikum fellow Karachiites, I'm sure many of you know this page or have seen their posts. I wanted to share my personal experience.

My cousin (who's 17 years old) was non-political some years ago but just recently he was telling me about how Urdu-speaking Muhajirs have suffered and how we should work to change the conditions of Urdu-speaking community. I was very surprised. When I asked him what caused this change in him, he showed me this page.

I've seen this page and their posts & I didn't take it much seriously but after seeing my own cousin change due to this, I thought maybe I should ask more people about it.

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https://medium.com/@ancientpakistan/redefining-pakistans-two-nation-theory-d6f8edd2ee9d

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What these raiders have to do with Islam? They didn't brought they brought shame so called Muslim used Islam name for thier own interests...

Should we name Jf 17 for afghan raider no recently the J10c were named as Indus dragon which represents core Pakistan and Chinese side this how it should be done.

There is so much information available about life under the Mughal empire and British Raj. So many plays and novels, thousands of poems, fantasy epics like Tilism-e-Hoshruba and Dastan-e-Amir Hamza. Basically 90% of what we read in Urdu in school. Why don't we study anything before Muhammad bin Qasim's expedition tho? Is it because they didn't record anything or are all the sources lost? It would be so interesting to read about people living in those times. Dozens of eras spread throughout the millennia and each people would have regarded their predecessors with the same fascination that we have towards the people of the mughal era.

Achaemenid Empire around 490 BCE and there in the far southeast corner sits a province labeled INDIA and the Persians didn't call it that they called it Hindus their pronunciation of Sindhu the old Sanskrit (orginated from Indus, Pakistan) name for the Indus River and the land around its lower basin the proto Iranian sound shift that turned s into h happened somewhere between 850 and 600 bce.

So Sindhu became Hindu and the us suffix followed the same pattern as other Persian province names like Bakhtris (Bactria) hindus just meant the land of the Sindhu not the modern day republic of India which just inherited this name with the help of Mountbatten.