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allowed traders to trave
between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Pakistan is actually india it used to be & afghan was basically persia. After a war happened when the Muslims came to spread the religion of Islam to India then called Hindustan a country with Hindu believes they fought some of the country wanted to convert & they fought with their ppl for not giving them the right to belief what they wanted so instead they changed their ethnicity & copied the Stan from Afghanistan & took Afghan Land & changed their ethnicity & became a country in 1947 so their basically Indian just changed their ethnicity. Afghans r persian coming from the arabs. Pakistan r Indians. Their language/culture/dna etc they did adapt the culture of both & mix it to become their own