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 | | In ancient Pakistan, nearly all of the Asokan edicts are written either in the Aramaic script (Aramiac had been the lingua franca of the Achaemenid empire) or in Kharosthi, a script derived from Aramaic. |
 | | Brhadrata, the last ruler of the Mauryan dynasty, ruled territories that had shrunk considerably from the time of emperor Ashoka, but he was still upholding the Buddhist faith. |
 | | The assassination of Brhadrata and the rise of the Sunga empire led to a wave of decline of Buddhists in India, but not in what is today Pakistan and Afghanistan. |
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