Punjab Politics Issues and Challenges

The Punjab has been called by different names in the different periods of history. In the Rig-Vedic days, when it was at the height of its glory, it was called 'Sapt Sindhu'- the land of seven tributaries of the Indus. At that time seven rivers used to flow through this land. After sometime, when the Greeks occupied this piece of land, they called it Pentapotamia, "Penta' from Greek word "Pento', meaning five and 'Potamas' meaning rivers. Thus, a land of five rivers. A few centuries later, the Punjab was named as "Taki'. It was called Taki after a powerful tribe of that name which ruled here for a pretty long time. The kingdom embraced the whole of the plains of the Punjab from the Indus to the Beas, and from the foot of the Himalayas to the junction of the five rivers, below Multan.