AFFECTS OF INVASION ON THE RACES , CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS OF THE INVADED COUNTRIES.

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 4.                   AFFECTS OF INVASION ON THE RACES , CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS OF THE INVADED COUNTRIES.
While having lunch with Mr. Oswaldo Nogerol , the Director Training of GATT ( RENAMED AS WTO) once , two fellow participants , a gentleman from Mexico , and another from Peru , entered the GATT Cafeteria in Geneva . I looked very intently . My fellow participant from Mexico looked every inch a Mongol. The other had features of an Arab . The more I looked at them the more I found delving into history in my mind . Finally , I discussed it with Mr. Nogerol  , a man I admired much for his learning and having a great  private library which made me envious . He had another quality that he never liked controversy . However , he was not able to answer my questions save that Mexico was ruled by the Incas in the past .
Suddenly , I found the correct answer to my curiosity . I explained to Mr. Nogerol that Spain was ruled for 800 years by the Arabs . They married the native women  after the women embraced Islam  and had children. After the Arabs were thrown out by Ferdinand and Isabella , a process of re conversion to Christianity began . Many Spaniards migrated have migrated .. The ancestors of the Peruvian may have also to South America.
I discussed  with him the possibility of research on the subject .
Again while returning home from a lecture  during the same GATT Course, I was  approached by a group of Arabs . One of them came face to face with me and asked me if I was an Arab . I replied in the negative  and told them that I was a Pakistani . However , I also them that my forefathers came from Mecca . They migrated to Kabul and then came to India .  
 The topic ‘EFFECTS OF INVASION ON THE RACE , CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS OF THE INVADED COUNTRIES ‘ appears  interesting . I

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don’t know if anybody conducted research on the topic . I wish to do so . But I studied history up to college . Besides my pre occupations with official duties and the children growing up , I was in awe of the University dons and the fear of being rejected by them .Now the awe has disappeared when my late son , Mustafa Mahfooz, opted for a PhD programme in Applied Mathematics  I had chances of association with his professors . 
Alexander invaded Afghanistan . Greeks married the local women . The progeny the pathans are very handsome . Assyrians came to Syria , Lebanon , Jordan and Palestine . The Vikings , the Huns , the Aryans to Europe.
However , my official duties and family obligations demanded my full attention prevented my thinking about research on the topic . With the children grown up and  I am leading a retired life , I have plenty of time at my disposal . However , factors still prevent from undertaking the task .

v    I am 68 years and sick . I do not know how many years I have to live . I would not like to leave the research unfinished .

v      I have no access to libraries/ universities  being sick and old .

 I am also writing  to universities  to sell the idea willing to work on it.
Mahfooz ur Rahman
Islamabad
November 19, 2012