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INDIA’S VULNERABLE ‘CHICKEN’S NECK’

SILIGURI CORRIDOR

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.

#IndiaChinaBorderTension #laddakh

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OF MYTHS ABOUT FREE FACILITIES FOR ARMY OFFICERS

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Myth-2: Army officers get free house at retirement.

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Myth & Realities about former Army Chiefs moving abroad after retirement

Myth - 1 : Gen Kayani own an island in Australia n is residing there

Reality: Gen Kayani last visited Australia officially as COAS n lives happily on Golf Road, Rawalpindi

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Myth 2: Gen Musharraf permanently moved abroad.

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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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...
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...the supply of waters flowing into Pakistan's Central Bari Doab and Dipalpur Canals.

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...the historic distribution of common waters undisturbed.

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Jan 31, 2021
TIMELINE OF KEY EVENTS IN PAKISTAN-INDIA HISTORY

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1947/48 - 1st Pak-India War in Oct 47

1949 - Pakistan n India agreed to withdraw all troops behind a mutually agreed Ceasefire Line - 1 Jan

1949 - Agreement on a UNSC resolution calling for referendum in Kashmir

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1954 - Accession of J & K to India is ratified by the state's constituent assembly

1960 - Signing of Indus Water Treaty in Sep

1963 - FMs of India and Pakistan - Swaran Singh and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto - held talks regarding the Kashmir dispute

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1964 - Following the failure of the 1963 talks, Pakistan referred the Kashmir case to the UNSC

1965 - 2nd Pakistan-India War

1966 - On 10 Jan, President Ayub Khan and PM Lal Bahadur Shastri signed an agreement at Tashkent

1971 - 3rd Pakistan-India War

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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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