1. @guardian 15 Oct 22, p 21 @tweeter_anita @EmpirePodUK, a cold-eyed, #critical #historian would've provided the #lowdown, and six of her best, to those boorish, blingy, visiting #Punjabis about the #Sikhempire or #ZulfikarBhutto. 
2. #Kashmiris and #Ladakhis, unlike mawkish #Punjabis, don't quite share that lachrymose view of #Punjabi #history or #DuleepSingh. #Lamaist #Buddhists and #Muslims chafed under #Sikhrulers. Expelled former; forbade latter #fasting/#Fridayprayers.
3. #India was in a tailspin under #Sikhs, #Marathas, #Mughals etc. and #Britishrule consolidated the peninsula unseen since the #Mauryas. #Newsflash right-on Radcliffe ranters either side: #EmpressVictoria sired #MotherIndia and #Iqbal's sarey jahān bulbuls.
4. Why cite #ZulfikarBhutto's 1976 rant, all of a predictable piece from a #thirdworld, venal, demagogue and debauch? Let this #British #orientalist briefly situate his screed: #Bhutto buried the #Pakistan project in the #BayofBengal, 1971.
5. Come 1973, #Bhutto injects #PakistanStudies into the #nationalcurriculum to plaster over #Islamic ignominy and bolster himself and #Muslimsupremacists. #History, per se, is not taught as a #subject anymore in #Pakistanischools, classes 1-12 to date.
6. Peeved #Pakistan, by this time, walked out of the #Commonwealth. Left #SEATO too, #typical #Muslim #hissyfit, because #Thailand et al. never came to its rescue in 1971. #India motioned and filed its #resubmission papers to the #Commonwealth, 1989.
7. #Bhutto shilling for #Lahore 'heritage' (whatevers!) wasn't about #Mughals much less #Sikhs but his #OIC 1974 shindig and #Pakistan à la #MuslimZion 2.0. #Bangladeshat50 still awaits #Pakistani #apology for his 'grasping, usurping temper of a former age'.
8. Your next @EmpirePodUK #podcast ought be not on #KohinoorDiamond but #Pakistanis and #Indians publicly affirming #culturalheritage is sustained in #WestisBest compared to their endemic corruption, ongoing pilferage-destruction and perpetual mismanagement.
9. Finally, @tweeter_anita, tell your #BullheShah croonin'-swoonin'-pre47 #Punjab lot to patch up by urging return of that #IndusValley #dancinggirl to #Karachi's #NationalMuseum. If not there then #PartitionMuseum for misty-eyed, Moti Mahalwallas.
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