Former Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has condemned India’s suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), claiming it’s an attack on Pakistan’s “cultural heritage” linked to the Indus Valley Civilization. That would be the same Indus Valley Civilization his country’s politicians and textbooks have spent decades erasing from public consciousness — because it inconveniently predates Islam and shares deep cultural and genetic links with India. Since independence in 1947, Pakistan’s official narrative has swapped out this 5,000-year-old indigenous legacy for a hand-me-down identity from medieval Central Asian conquerors. Schoolchildren learn more about Ghazni than Mohenjo-daro; Harappa exists only when there’s a need for nationalist bragging. Yet, when water politics heat up, the same leadership suddenly rediscovers the Indus as “our ancient heritage.” India’s decision, announced after the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, has Pakistan warning of a humanitarian crisis for 200 million people. The irony is almost operatic: a nation that disowned its past now clutching it for international sympathy — all while keeping it expelled from its own history books.