Tracing Historic Links Between Pakistan and Central Asia

The existence of links between Pakistan and Central Asia at the end of 3rd and the beginning of 2nd millennium B.C is beyond doubts. Pakistan and Central Asia are seats of original cultures and centers world’s earliest civilizations. Pakistan’s cultural contacts with central Asia can be traced back to the Prehistoric times. In the Indian (sub continent) context the Paleolithic (earliest Stone Age) culture is know as ‘The Soan,’ (meaning gold) after its first identification on the banks of the river of that name. Whereas in Central Asia, the same age is known as ‘Borykazhan…