I thought he was a Sunni Muslim Pakistanis are Indians not Arabs and via the 1948 partition their country was created from India.(I wonder how many millions died??
He's probably Punjabi, or some such ethnic group. The old "British India" encompassed what is now the countries of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. They also ruled the adjacent Afghanistan and Burma.
The whole Indian subcontinent contains a multitude of ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups.