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Kharoshti was used in Gandhara (Northern Pakistan). It is derived from Aramiac. Aramaic script arrived with the Achaemenid Empire's conquest of the Indus River (modern Pakistan) in 500 BCE. It is written right to left.
Descent tree:
Phoenician alphabet
Aramaic alphabet
Kharosthi
Sister Scripts derived from Aramaic:
Brahmi script (parent of scripts in india)
Nabataean alphabet
Syriac alphabet (base of modern scripts in Pk)
Palmyrene alphabet
Mandaic alphabet
Pahlavi scripts (pre islamic iran)
Sogdian alphabet