So how is Pakistan's relationship with Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan?Do they look kind of like brothers? or just as neighbors? and is there any rivalry between Pakistan and any of them? and finally! how was Pakistan's relationship with Iran in the Persian era?
Relationship with Iran: Well in my Head cannons for Iran , i view him as an Arrogant and proud type of a person with a superiority complex. As for relations between Iran and Pakistan , well Lets just say their relationship at times can be like ‘Meh , Okay you exist ,Neighbors and deals’ to ‘Shia-Sunni tension’. Pakistan doesn’t necessarily views Iran that positively but its somewhat complicated. Pakistan is somewhat related to him due to Ethnic overlap and due to being under numerous Iranic empires and conquests , He shares cultural similarities with Iran. Pakistan’s national Poet , Allama Iqbal used to write poetry in both Persian (or Farsi) and Urdu. Urdu itself has a lot of similar words from Persian so a Pakistani can understand a Persian speaker to some extent. Though there has been numerous Bumps in their shared history , Iran DID support Pakistan when he needed it. Similarly, Pakistan recognizes that if he needed to be fully secure , he would have to cooperate with Iran. Also Pakistan tries to remain on a neutral ground during the Iran vs. Saudi moments due to the Sunni VS Shia diaspora. (Both Iran and Saudi have been accused of supporting shia/sunni extremist groups in Pakistan , also did i mention that some Pakistani Shias love Iran more than Pakistan itself? SOME PEOPLE LIKE THAT EXIST UGH-)
Politics aside , they are pretty friendly , Although Paki is annoyed by Iran’s arrogance , He wouldn’t mind spending some time with Iran , especially since he empathizes with Iran on some of his issues. Also fun fact , Biryani originated from Iran lol (BUT we make it better heheh-). Pakistan has also spent time with him when he was young and the games of empires were the norm , so they knew each other from there.
Relationship with Tajikistan: My head cannon for Tajikistan is that she is a happy go lucky woman with questionable reservations. Basically a weird little Lady who does weird yet funny stuff. Though there isn’t much historical ties between Pakistan and Tajikistan (other than the fact that Tajikistan shares history and culture similar to our Gilgit Baltistan province) they still get along pretty well. So far their relationship status is that of friendly helpful neighbors (almost). Tajikistan also has to depend on Pakistan to reach the Arabian Sea for trade but due to the situation in Afghanistan , everything has been kinda hard.
Pakistan also Took in Tajik refugees from Tajikistan during their Soviet Invasion. These Tajiks lived in Gilgit Baltistan. Some still live there to this day.
All in all , pretty nice relations.
Relationship with Afghanistan: Afghanistan is a grumpy guy ! absolutely no doubt about that , and he has been extremely fiery with Pakistan , even before Pakistan gained independence. Afghan , Like Iran , is extremely proud and arrogant , taking extreme pride in his past , despite being stuck in a unfavorable situation. Honestly , the relationship between Afghanistan and Pakistan is more complicated , though as of recently they both dislike each other.
After Pakistan became independent , the feeling of religious bias was still fresh, and Thus Pakistan liked Afghanistan and his people due to them being muslims. However Afghanistan already held unfavorable views of Pakistan due to Pakistani Pashtuns (which Afghanistan thought were his people despite Pakistani Pashtuns disagreeing) and this resulted in Afghanistan claiming half of Pakistani territory.
When Afghanistan was getting invaded by the Soviets , Pakistan immediately took in millions and millions of Afghan refugees which remain here to this date.Some of these refugees gained Pakistani citizenship and are legal Pakistanis however a large portion of them are illegal refugees. I head cannon that Afghanistan would have stay over Pakistan’s house often due to things being unstable back at his own home.
But Alas , despite the hostilities , Pakistan still has a soft spot for Afghan since he IS a muslim and he is his neighbor , However he will seldom show it unless Afghanistan needs his help desperately (and even then the concern would be shown with insults).
As for rivalries , i guess you can say he and Afghanistan might have something like that but , it isn’t really a rivalry at this point lol. Rivalry between Iran and Pakistan? Again thats a no brainer , Iran got money and oil ;; But we have nukes ;; As for Tajik? Nope.
Brothers or Neighbors?: Both in a way? Pakistan is mostly not just one ethnic group , i guess you can say he is a Mixed blood kid at a large scale. He has Indic blood , Iranic blood ,Indo-European, Dardic, Hazara etc etc and so on. So he in a way is related to everyone he borders. As for how he looks? He’ll look similar to them yet different, The similarities are there , but also the differences, But there’s no question they can be threaded as a family.
Relations with Iran during Persian Era: Well i will assume Persia to exist during that time and Iran to be a teenager around these times. Pakistan was born around the end of Sasanian Empire and during the Ummayad Caliphate. Neither Iran nor Persia would’ve known why a child personification such as Umer would’ve existed back then (as he clearly didn’t represent any tribe or ethnic group) But Pakistan continued to Tag along with them Until he was later invaded by the Ghaznavids. However as more and more empires invaded , existed , demolished , they were on times , on the same time and at times on the opposite sides. So it all really depends on which specific timeline we are going to be focusing on.
During the time they were together , Umer viewed Iran with admiration , and viewed him as an older brother figure , a warrior and a role model. Persia and Iran’s cultures influenced him a lot, So he liked them. He loved Persian poetry and would often scurry off to Persia and Iran in their free time to spend some time writing stuff. You can see in present time that he inherited quite some stuff from them.
//Holy shit this took so long , today i was suppose to rest but instead i spent the whole day doing this, also by the end of this , i guess i am having a much easier time imagining stuff with Iran , Afghan and Tajikistan along with Pakistan. I would love to answer if you had anymore questions regarding them or not , or would love to see if you had any head cannons yourself or not. //
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