Yet the correction to that excess is not to think smaller of Pakistan. It is to think more truthfully. Pakistan does not need borrowed grandeur. It already occupies one of the deepest civilizational crossroads in the Muslim world, where the Indus inheritance, Persianate memory, Pashtun frontier, Central Asian movement, Punjabi political depth, and post-colonial Muslim statehood all converge. That is not a thin story needing imported romance. It is already enormous. The real problem is impatience with complexity. People want one label to perform the work of history.
Khorasan may survive as poetic memory, as a civilizational echo, even as a symbolic horizon in some religious imagination. But the moment it is treated as unquestionable modern geopolitical doctrine, it stops helping and starts distorting. Nations serious about their future cannot afford to build themselves on narrative intoxication. They need a pride strong enough to survive without fabrication, and a history deep enough to carry identity without the crutch of exaggerated mythology. Pakistan deserves exactly that kind of confidence.
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