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Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhara
TIL that Gandhara is a historical region in today’s Pakistan that was a Buddhist crossroads. In ancient times that region was influenced by Persians and Greeks due to Alexander the Great, the Mauryas and Indo-Greek Kingdom and became an ancient center of Buddhism.
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So, it was majority Muslim at the time of partition with India?
Gandhari from Mahabharatha was from here, Today’s Kandhahar is corruption of the word Gandhara.