Remember the hijack of Indian Airlines flight from kathmandu to Kandahar in Afghanistan.
Wikipedia on "Kandahar" shows the following:
"Kandahar may be derived from Gandhara, the name of an ancient Indian kingdom to the north along the modern Kashmir and Afghanistan border, and a former satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire. Another possibility is that it could be derived from the Arabic rendering of Alexander's name. A temple to the deified Alexander as well as an inscription in Greek and Aramaic by the emperor Ashoka, who lived a few decades later, have been discovered in the old citadel."
India extended upto present day Afghanistan.
Thanks to barbarians, we lost it and today we have to listen to sermons by these barbarians.
