Again, you are viewing everything from the perspective of being a Muslim. It is not your fault though, because it is the route this country took after independence. We Islamized our history and decided to put our identity as a Muslim over everything.
We identify ourselves as Muslims first and then Punjabis, Pashtuns, Sindhis, Balochis etc. In Pakistan’s formative years, it was understandable because we didn’t have any identity without Islam. Our country was created for Islam and it served as the binding force.
General Ayub’s decision to merge history and geography into Pak Studies was a conscious decision, but it also has had negative long-term implications because our people today are largely ignorant of the contributions of the rulers excluding the Arab invaders.
Ranjit Singh isn’t a hero of Islam or even a defender of Islam - however, he is a hero and a defender of Punjab and there is nothing wrong in glorifying him.
Similarly, Raja Dahir is the hero of Sindh and not the foreign invader Muhammad bin Qasim, but since we are Muslims today, our version of myopic history remembers the former as a Hindu tyrant and the latter as a Muslim liberator who helped spread Islam in the subcontinent.
