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1965 - IAF gun camera captures an attack at a Paki trainyard.
A burning rail engine at top & dust of bullets hitting ground clearly visible
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1965 - Mysteres of No 1 Squadron carrying out a raid on Sargodha Airfield
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Indian Soldiers flying the Tri Colour at the Hajipir Pass , 28 Aug 1965
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Indian Army Centurion Tanks rolling up dust as they blitz past the Sialkot Sector during 1965 Indo-Pak War
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The jeep that Company Quarter Master Havildar Abdul Hamid used in the Indo-Pak battle of 1965, kept at the Grenadiers Regimental Centre in Jabalpur.
This single jeep and its detachment took out 11 Pattons over two days.
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Indian soldiers capture a Pakistani M36B2 Jackson in 1965 Indo-Pak War
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Punjab : Villagers hunting for the Paki paratroopers in 1965 war.
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A Centurion tank of the Indian Army enters the Pakistani town of Phillora during the 1965 war
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1965 : Prime Minister Shastri with his victorious troops
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1965 : 'Ghazis' from Pakistan rounded up by the Indian Army in the Kashmir Valley
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1965 : Paki fauj mustering Pakistan's best for a mission to 'liberate' Kashmir.
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Lt Col Sampuran Singh, MVC, VrC, CO, 19 Punjab seen with the Defence Minister, Mr YB Chavan and Maj Gen SS Kalaan, GOC, 19 Infantry Division, Uri-Haji Pir Sector, 1965
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Indian Army officers near Pakistani M4A1E6 Sherman that was destroyed by the Indian Army during the 1965 Indo-Pak War
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General Harbakhsh and General Dhillon with a captured Pak Sherman in 1965
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1965-A Pakistani officer arrives in a jeep, after the cease-fire, to seek the permission of the Indian Army to collect the dead and wounded
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1965 : Deserted by all, on the Pakistani retreat from Salian village in the Sialkot sector, Hasana Begum, 85, is helped to her cot outside her small home by an Indian soldier
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Amongst the largest tank battles post the Second World War
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Nishchay Kar Apni Jeet Karoon ..
1965: A Sikh soldier seeks blessings from his Guru before heading out to battle
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1965 : Much flaunted Paki war machines being hauled off to become doormats at Indian Army's cantonments
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Sep 1965 saw a different type of 'crop' in fields of Punjab - The 1st Armoured Division of Pakistan
God bless those who fell in the process
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1965, HajiPir : A congratulatory handshake and a pat on the back for a job well done
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1965 : A PAF Sabre that came visiting, and decided to stay!
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1965 : Gen Rajinder Singh 'Sparrow', MVC, posing with whatever was left of 1st Armored Division of Pakis.
This was the same guy who wrested Jhangar and ZojiLa from them in the 1947-48 war
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1965 : In Khem Karan, with some scrap metal from Pakistan
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1965 : A pontoon bridge destroyed by retreating Paki Forces, Ichogil Canal, East Lahore
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1965 : Near brand new Paki toys that their Brown Panted 'boys' abandoned in their rush to get away from the Indian Army.
This is a click from Bhikhiwind
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1965 : Meek surrender to the humble Punjabi farmer is all that the much vaunted Brown Pants of Pakistan could achieve in the end
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Jawans of the Dogra Regiment Raise the Tricolour at Dera Baba Nanak Bridge, 1965.
Incidentally, this it the route to Dera Saheb Kartarpur. #JustSaying
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1965 : The best the the Americans could spare; The Pride of the Paki Fauj
All of it came to a naught, thanks to the Brown Pants that drove these into battle against the Indian Army
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1965 : The Khalsas of Gobind saw yet another bunch of delusional 'Ghazis' meet their end in those holy lands
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1965 : Aftermath
Pattons, the pride of Paki Army, now mere war trophies, being hauled off to become doormats at the entrances to Indian Army Cantts
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1965 : A recce picture of PA M-48 Patton tanks in Indian territory during the Kutch faceoff, taken by Flying Officer Utpal Barbara of the No. 101 Sqdn.
A PR Vampire was used for the sortie
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1965 : Indian troops looking at a bridge, across the Ichhogil Canal, that was destroyed by the Pakistani Army as they ran away when they realized that the 'Hindu Morale' wasn't as low as they had expected!
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1965 : Many a 'Ghazi' have fallen in the Land of Five Rivers, these were just the latest ones that year
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1965 : Indian Army on the outskirts of Lahore, in front of yet another bridge destroyed by the retreating Paki Brown Pants
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A legend was born that year.
It went by the name of 'Sabre Slayer'!
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1965 - Soldiers At The Grave of CQMH Abdul Hamid, PVC (P)
:THREAD:
Folks, sharing some thoughts on Big Tech that has become an integral part of our daily lives as individuals as well as collectively.
The trigger was the massive outage of Microsoft devices some weeks ago. Have been having some thoughts since then.
Let's see how it goes..
First and foremost, here is a link to the outage of Microsoft devices due to some issue with CrowdStrike, for those who might have forgotten it. economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/moc…
So many parts of our lives came to a halt, because someone somewhere screwed up!
It was a major news headline for atleast a couple of days.
And then, we moved on once things were back in order, dismissing this as a temporary hitch in our day-to-day existence.
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This tweet landed on my TL some time back.
More than the event itself, it was the mention of Bangladesh Army that got me thinking.
Sharing a chain of thoughts.
Still unstructured. Let's see how it goes ..
First thing I did was to go to the Wikipedia page of Bangladesh Army to confirm a hunch.
And true to my expectations, I saw the size of Bangladesh Army to be 160,000 troops!
To put things in context and why I found it amusing, I will just give a comparison with the British and the German Armies, sourced from Wikipedia itself.
British Army = Approx 79,000 Active Duty personnel
German Army = 63,000 personnel
Last night just as I was about to hit bed, this short thread landed up on my TL.
My first reaction was that this was inevitable!
Sharing some thoughts on this latest development.
Let's see how it goes ..
First and foremost, I will share this video of Dacca University, taken in March 1971, aired by NBC News 10 months later.
THIS is how the endgame of 1971 commenced - with the West Pakistani occupiers killing students and professors ..
MUST watch the video and hear the commentary
It seems almost like a Deja Vu all over again, doesn't it?
Given that the levels of violence for the time being aren't of similar nature, but students clashing with armed wings of the state is a dire reminded of what happened not very long ago ..
Sharing some thoughts on the #Bangladesh issue that has flared up over the past few days.
Thoughts are still unstructured, let's see how this thread goes ..
I will start by saying that If you STILL cannot hear the drums of war, you must be deaf indeed!
The wheels of history seem to be moving with increasing urgency lately, getting greased with more and more blood. Sad, as it may be, it is just history repeating itself.
The events that have transpired in Bangladesh over the past few days and weeks and months have been reported fairly widely, so I won't delve on them much.
But fact remains that it is just the latest in a series of countries ending up in chaos over the past couple of years.
This day in 1999, a young Captain by the name of Manoj Kumar Pandey was going gung ho, clearing Paakis in Khalubar.
Little would he have have known that he had just about 43 days more in this world, before he attained martyrdom, and with it, immortal fame ..
He led the most difficult tasks assigned to 1/11 Gorkha Rifles in the war, with full confidence in his fellow Gorkhas to deliver.
Here is a letter he wrote from the battlefield to a friend.
Download, Zoom & Read.
I INSIST.