TOPIC:  MILITARY HISTORY OF PAKISTAN

Articl: Ancient empires.

The Region of modern day pakistan formed the most easternmost populous and richest satrapy of the most easternmost of the persian achamemid empire for almost two centuies starting from the regin of darius the great the first major confict erupted when alexander the great overthrew the achameind empire in and matrched eastwards eventually after defeating king prous in the fierce battle of the hydaspes he conquered much of the punjab region but his battle weaery traop refused to advanec further into india to engage formidable arny of nanda dynsty and its vangurad of tramping elephauts new monstorities to the invaders. There fore alexander proceded south west along the indus valley along the way he engaged in several battles with samaller kingdoms before marching his army westward across the makran desert towards modern tran.

Alexander founded several new mocedoniom/greek sttements in gandara and punjab as alexander the great greek and persian armies withdrew westwerd the satrafs left behind by alexander were defeated and conquered by chandrapgupta maurya who found the maura empire wich ruled the region from 321-185 bc The mauryes empire it sellf conquered by the shunga empire which ruled the region form185-to 73 bc. other region such as the khyber pass was left unguarded and a wale of foreign invasion followed. The greek boctrian king demetrius capitalized and he conquered southen afghanistan  and pakistan around 180-bc farming the indo- greek kingdom.alitmate disappard as a political entry around 10, ad following the inasions of the central asian indo-scythians. Their empire morphed in the khushan empirs who ruled until 375 ad the region was then conquered by the persian indo-sassanid empire who ruled rarge parts of it until 565-ad.