Read my post very slowly.
1. Where have I said Alexander invaded vedic era Pakistan?
I clearly said Alexander invaded Hindush. Hindush was formed in the vedic era by Achaemenids. Alexander invaded after the vedic era. I never said anything to the contrary.
2. The "Indic" civilisation seems a fabricated term to me. Kindly use the proper terminology - in this case, use "Indus Valley Civilisation", which is closest to what you say, but importantly, associates that region with the river Indus. I can understand why you have tried to tease the Indus out of that definition and reframe it as "Indic" rather than "Indus Valley", as your variant term redefines the entire phrase as something relatable to other parts of the "Indian subcontinent", but such gibberish simply won't fly outside of your Gangadeshi seminar group classes.
3. The Pakistan I refer to was indeed inhabited by the denizens of the Indus Valley Civilisation. They were in a region called "Hindush" by the Achaemenids, not to be confused with the word "Hindus", which is the term that describes people who adhere to the Hindu faith, irrespective of their location on earth. "Hindus" and "Hindush" are not interchangeable at all since they describe different things entirely. Moreover, "Bharatis" is not a term applicable to the Indus Valley Civilisation as they never called themselves that. Aside from the mythology of religious texts, it was first recorded as a localising term on stone inscriptions in Odisha.
4. As for Pakistan (its precursor forms: The IVC, later Hindush) being a political entity, it was precisely as much a political entity as Bharat was in the vedic era.
Hindush was anciently referred to by the Greeks in Asia Minor as India, and its inhabitants were called Indians.
The People: The ancient inhabitants of the lower Indus Valley and surrounding eastern territories governed by the Persian Empire were called the people of Hindush or ancient Indians by Greek writers like Herodotus.
The people of this region followed the indigenous religious and philosophical traditions of the Indian subcontinent, which later came to be known collectively as Hinduism, or Sanatana Dharma ("the eternal spiritual path").
Over centuries, as cultural and linguistic shifts occurred, the Persian geographical term land belief systems were eventually categorized by outsiders and practitioners alike as the religion of Hinduism.
Key Religious Traditions Followed
Instead of a single, centralized church or dogma, the inhabitants practiced diverse, evolving traditions centered on shared foundational concepts:
• The Vedas and Upanishads: The sacred Śruti texts that formed the early liturgical, philosophical, and ritual baseline.
• Core Dharmic Concepts: Belief in Dharma (cosmic and moral order), Karma (action and consequence), Saṃsāra (the cycle of rebirth), and Moksha (spiritual liberation).
• Major Denominations: Over time, these split and matured into major traditions such as Vaishnavism (devotion to Vishnu), Shaivism (devotion to Shiva), and Shaktism (devotion to the Divine Mother/Shakti), alongside philosophical schools like Yoga and Vedanta
