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You are reading too much into the article - Yusuf got closer to the gist of it - this is not a 'rediscovering of some ancient unified Indian identity', it is more of a continuation of the attempt to counter 'wahabi based extremism' by highlighting Pakistan's civilizational roots going back to the IVC, Gandhara etc. as well as her 'Sufi/Barelvi' (vs Deobandi/Wahabi) Islamic roots.Now slowly Pakis realising that the idea of Pakistan failed and therefore trying to claim Indianness in them. Let's see how well this will fly among Indians or even among his fellow Pakistanis.
The author, with his repeated references to his Pakistani identity, makes clear that he is not forsaking the idea of Pakistan as much as he is trying to define it in a more comprehensive manner that takes into account the non-Islamic and Islamic past and present.