Exactly exactlyA side note on calling the IVC “ancient Pakistan”. Pakistan today constituted the bulk of the lands of the IVC, so calling ancient Pakistan can be focused on that time.
When people think of the ancient Egyptians, it’s focus on that region that is modern day Egypt today. The ancient Egyptians didn’t refer to their region as Egypt. They called it “Kemet”.
So while trying to popularize the concept of ancient Pakistan will take time, a focus on the IVC and this genetic research, and not the post-IVC aryan civilization that followed, will allow Pakistani authorities to tell the story from geographical centric point of view. The people that populate modern day Pakistan are the descendants of those IVC peoples and they have gone through a journey or cultural change, just like the Egyptians and Iraqis but are the natives of the land and this is who they are, and so on.
It's about simply talking about it more and connecting it to your actual geographical history under your feet
As mentioned the ziaification excessively suppressed anything non islamic, that was not a service to the country or the people
This sort of acknowledgement would be useful to boost the national foundations and projection, not undermine it.
As it happens opportunistic Indians seized the neglected narrative and simply lay claim
If Pakistanis talk about the ancient history under their feet, in their country as ancient Pakistan Indians can only watch from a distance, ivc mostly in Pakistan anyway