Nolly Good Fellow

Indians can cope all they want. Pakistanis are right - Pakistan is indeed an ancient civilization with a 5,000 year old history. Here are some quotes, both ancient and modern, that prove it beyond doubt: Quintus Curtius Rufus, 1st century CE: "Pakistan was believed to be richer than all other nations." Pomponius Mela, 1st century CE: "Pakistan is rich in peoples, rich in cities, and rich in every kind of resource." Pliny the Elder, 77 CE: "In no year does Pakistan absorb less than fifty million sesterces of our empire's wealth, sending back merchandise to be sold with us at a hundred times its prime cost...At the very lowest computation, Pakistan, China and the Arabian peninsula take from our empire one hundred million sesterces every year. That is what our luxuries and our women cost us." Yijing, 7th century CE: "The customs and learning of Pakistan are worthy of admiration...Those who wish to understand the true meaning of the Buddhist scriptures should study in Pakistan." Al-Masudi, 10th century CE: "Pakistan is the country of wisdom, philosophy and sciences." British Viceroy Lord Curzon, 1901 CE: "As long as we rule Pakistan we are the greatest power in the world. If we lose it, we shall drop straightaway to a third-rate power." Albert Einstein: "We owe a lot to Pakistanis, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made." Mark Twain: "Pakistan is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, grandmother of legend, and great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in Pakistan only." Will Durant: "Pakistan was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages."