{"id":39441,"date":"2026-04-22T08:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/?p=39441"},"modified":"2026-04-22T08:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:45:25","slug":"karzai-says-northern-india-pakistan-civilization-continuation-of-afghan-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/39441\/","title":{"rendered":"Karzai Says Northern India, Pakistan Civilization Continuation of Afghan Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai, criticizing remarks by Pakistan\u2019s president about \u201cGandhara,\u201d said that \u201cin reality, the civilization of northern India and present-day Pakistan is a continuation of Afghanistan\u2019s civilization.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said Asif Ali Zardari, the president of Pakistan, had recently claimed that \u201cGandhara civilization is among those that define Pakistan\u2019s national identity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karzai added that Zardari had also described \u201cAdam Khan and Durkhani and the rubab\u201d as part of his country\u2019s intangible cultural heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karzai continued: \u201cThis is while, according to the history of civilizations, Gandhara belonged to ancient Ariana, which stretched from Bamiyan to the Indus basin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that \u201cthe love story of Adam Khan and Durkhani and the rubab, as reflected in various sources, are part of our intangible cultural heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karzai stressed that the rubab and the zerbaghali are traditional Afghan musical instruments. He said the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recognized the art of making the rubab in 2024 as part of the cultural heritage of Afghanistan and some of its northern and western neighbors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former Afghan president has long been a critic of Pakistan and had previously objected to the naming of a Pakistani ballistic missile \u201cAbdali.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai, criticizing remarks by Pakistan\u2019s president about \u201cGandhara,\u201d said that \u201cin reality, the civilization of northern India and present-day Pakistan is a continuation of Afghanistan\u2019s civilization.\u201d He said Asif Ali Zardari, the president of Pakistan, had recently claimed that \u201cGandhara civilization is among those that define Pakistan\u2019s national identity.\u201d Karzai added [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":39442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[8366,8363,7720,8358,8362,8361,8359,7836,8364,7647,7747,8365,8360,2335,5719,5706],"class_list":["post-39441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","tag-abdali","tag-ariana","tag-bamiyan","tag-civilization","tag-cultural-heritage-2","tag-durkhani","tag-gandhara","tag-india-2","tag-indus-basin","tag-karzai-2","tag-pakistan-2","tag-unesco","tag-zardari","tag-deeyar","tag-deeyar-television","tag-deeyar-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39443,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39441\/revisions\/39443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}