Do you guys think a lot of Pakistanis look west Asian?

[chinshen]

No not really.

[aherne]

Two of them look Corded mixed with some Iranid. Very characteristic for old Aryans... What is their ethnicity?

[Swarthy_Syndicate]

I'd say a large portion of them could pass for some kind of MENA. Pakistan as a country is also considerably more northwest than the majority of India, so the average Pakistani is better representative of a Nord-Indid to Irano-Afghan blend than the average South Asian.

Plus, the influence from their Muslim religion being as strong as it is, it wouldn't surprise me many of them are confused for MENA. I think their community dynamics are quite different from Indians, as they tend to suffer from radicalization and such troubles not really found in Hindus. People say "we were the same country" but that means jackshit, Belarus and Turkmenistan were also once part of the same country yet they are worlds apart in basically everything.

[Swarthy_Syndicate]

Pakistan is a gradient nation between north Indian features and Southern Iranic features. I will classify Pakistan as a truly Indo Iranian country which in distant future (100-200 years) will become dominantly southern Iranian because I have been told by lameduck here before that Pashtuns and Baloch (southern Iranic groups) are breeding at faster rate in Pakistan.

Not hard to believe TBH. MENA have the highest breeding rates in general compared to most other regions of the world. Plus with all the Islamic influence and whatnot it is safe to say Pakistan will culturally shift very far from traditional North India.

[Swarthy_Syndicate]

Lol most Indians are clueless about Pakistan. It's mostly Punjabis, Uttar Pradesh and some other northern enclaves that are heated about the Hindi-Urdu divide and the partition border. The rest of central and south India have no freaking clue about and quite frankly have little in common with Muslims in general, let alone Pakistanis.

[Tooting Carmen]

I'd say a large portion of them could pass for some kind of MENA. Pakistan as a country is also considerably more northwest than the majority of India, so the average Pakistani is better representative of a Nord-Indid to Irano-Afghan blend than the average South Asian.

Plus, the influence from their Muslim religion being as strong as it is, it wouldn't surprise me many of them are confused for MENA. I think their community dynamics are quite different from Indians, as they tend to suffer from radicalization and such troubles not really found in Hindus. People say "we were the same country" but that means jackshit, Belarus and Turkmenistan were also once part of the same country yet they are worlds apart in basically everything.

Um, the VJP itself is a Hindu Nationalist party that has been behind some pretty vicious pogroms of Muslims.

[pindi2000]

I'd say a large portion of them could pass for some kind of MENA. Pakistan as a country is also considerably more northwest than the majority of India, so the average Pakistani is better representative of a Nord-Indid to Irano-Afghan blend than the average South Asian.

Plus, the influence from their Muslim religion being as strong as it is, it wouldn't surprise me many of them are confused for MENA. I think their community dynamics are quite different from Indians, as they tend to suffer from radicalization and such troubles not really found in Hindus. People say "we were the same country" but that means jackshit, Belarus and Turkmenistan were also once part of the same country yet they are worlds apart in basically everything.

Western Pakistan is iranid ethnically therefore alot of them will pass as MENA. On the east i dont we pass as MENA overall but many ppl can pass as MENA(around 10%). we are mostly nord indids mostly with strong connections to our punjabis brothers in north-west of india, plus the foothils of himachal and jammu. In the north the dardics can also pass as MENA alot of the time.