Siliguri Corridor, also known as India’s ‘Chicken's Neck’, is 200 km long and 60 km wide.
It is a vulnerable artery in India’s geography and is only medium to connect 7 North-Eastern states to rest of India.
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The troubled North-East region of India has many political issues from within including SEPARATIST MOVEMENTS.
This region comprises of Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Tripura and Sikkim – a region surrounded Bhutan, Myanmar, Bangladesh and China.
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If Siliguri Corridor is captured by China, it can geographically isolate those states from mainland.
All major trade and supply (both civilian and military) routes from Mainland India to the North East exist via this corridor.
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Indian Army has a massive presence in that region. India cannot afford to allow any Chinese presence inside the narrow corridor.
China CAN DO TO INDIA WHAT INDIA DID TO PAKISTAN IN 1971 by delinking the former East Pakistan from West Pakistan.
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China will have opportunity to create 7 different Bangladesh in North-East India.
It is through Chumbi Valley that the Chinese PLA can block Siliguri Corridor and thus delink North-east from the rest of India in one massive swipe.
MYTHS ABOUT OFFICERS & TROOPS RELATIONSHIP IN PAK ARMY
Myth-1: Only junior ranking officers and troops serve in the field whereas Generals and senior officers do desk jobs in GHQ
Reality: NOO.
All ranks including Generals serve in forward areas and hard areas in rotation as… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Myth-2: Officers do not lead in operations and stay back
Reality: NOO.
Pakistan Army has highest ratio of officer to soldier shahadat in the world which is 1:8.
i.e., for every eight soldiers in combat, we are losing one officer.
Myth-3: Officers in Army are like kings and have minimum interaction with troops
Reality: NOO.
Army officers are trained from day 1 to stay in the field with troops. May it be highest battle field of Siachen or forward posts in Waziristan, officers and troops stay together;… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Myth-1: Army officers pay no electricity bills & rent of their official residences
Reality: House rent is deducted at source for all officers. Higher the rank, higher the rent. All pay electricity bills as per govt rates
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Myth-2: Army officers get free house at retirement.
Reality: Officers obtain membership of housing scheme at start of service and pay monthly instalments all along. Remaining amount is paid in lump-sump at retirement…
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… Normally complete gratuity is consumed in this terminal payment at retirement.
Army manages it through transparent system.
Reality: Gen Musharraf was under treatment in UAE and had written in his will to be buried with Shuhada of Pak Army. He sleeps peacefully in Karachi. Ayla & Bilal Musharraf lived like normal citizens in Karachi all along.
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Myth 3: Gen Jehangir Karamat moved to USA.
Reality: Gen JK was Pakistan’s Ambassador to USA after retirement. He moved back and lives happily in Lahore.
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PAKISTAN-INDIA WATER ISSUES – HOW INDIA STOPPED WATER IN PAKISTAN's CANALS IN 1948
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After partition in 1947, the water system was also bifurcated between Pakistan n India.
India cheated Pakistan when on April 1, 1948, India suddenly n without warning stopped... 1/n
...the supply of waters flowing into Pakistan's Central Bari Doab and Dipalpur Canals.
The boundary award on the partition of the sub-continent had left the headworks of these canals in Indian territory, and in accepting it India had implied her willingness to leave...
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...the historic distribution of common waters undisturbed.
India's action was therefore in flagrant disregard not only of international law n morality, but of her solemn commitments with Pakistan and a gross violation of this country's historical rights over common waters.
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THE LAST PRINCESS OF LAHORE - BAMBA DULEEP SINGH (1869 - 1957)
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Post partition, every morning a weak old woman would board the Model Town bus service headed to the city. The conductor never asked her for money or he would invite anger of the last Queen of Punjab.
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Princess Bamba Sutherland, the eldest daughter of Maharaja Duleep Singh and grand-daughter of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, was born on Sep 29, 1869, in London.
Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of Punjab was taken away to England by British after annexing Punjab.
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Since he was still a child he was forcibly converted to Christianity and made to adopt British values in order to prevent him from ever thinking about regaining Punjab.
He was also kept away from his mother Maharani Jindan.
When he finally met his mother years later...
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