Indian-Pakistani

Indian-Pakistani is term to denote a common culture most of northern India and Pakistan before the partition and possible Bangladesh (formally east Pakistan) . However, it would more so include only Punjab, Sindh, and roughly most of Northern India with Indo-Aryan as a common language family as a rough estimate and exclude Baloch and Pashtun regions who are because they are considered Iranian peoples, and cut off from the Indian subcontinent by the Indus River and a tectonic fault line by the Indian and eurasian plate. Thus placing them in the Iranian plateau instead of the Indian subcontinent where the core cultures of Pakistan reside. For Dravidian peoples, they roughly occupy half of the southern deccan plateau and may not be inculuded under such a definition.
What defines this culture may be unclear. It may include those that use the khariboli dialect as the official forms Hindi, and Urdu, where in Pakistan, khariboli is only the mother tongue of Muslim refugees known as Mohajirs, contrary to popular belief,Sindhi and Punjabi languages are the predominant mother tongue in core Pakistan and not Urdu with Khariboli being their second tongue and widely used throughout Pakistan. A growing minority of families from the core regions of Pakistan and who are not part of the Mohajir populace are adopting the khariboli language as their native language over the preference of their mother tongue, however the number of such peoples who did it as a result of mixed marriages between distinct cultures is unknown.
Linguistic assimilation and integration of the Pashtun regions Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and FATA into Pakistani culture is hindered due to geographical obstacles such as the indus river and tectonic fault lines causing hilly terrain and the fact that Pashto is an East Iranic language, not Indic and has a large presence in such regions. However, as proven by the history of the Pashtuns, their integration and assimilation becomes easy when they migrate out of their mountainous homeland.
Assimilation among Sindhis is another challenge. The arrival of Urdu speaking Mohajirs created a stark polarization between them and the Sindhis over sheer comptetition over economic terms, it was not easy for Mohajirs to integrate in Sindh as it was for those in Punjab.
The Lahore-Amritsar area is a major metropolitan region in the world due to its large population, and it may seem that Khariboli dialect will marginalize the Majhi dialect of Punjabi, which will be reduced to only being used among the Sikhs.
Khariboli is the native indo-aryan dialect of peoples who live in central parts of India. Khar means to and bol means to speak, therefore Hindi and Urdu are known as "the speech that sands up" with differences in that Hindi uses high vocabulary words from older indo-aryan languages like Sanskrit and pre-Islamic middle persian (due to cross cultural contacts with Ancient Persians and Indo-Aryans) and uses devanagari script while Urdu uses words borrowed from Arabic, Turkish and Persian, languages of Muslim invaders in India and uses perseo-Arabic script.

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