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445 Lt Gen Raj Sujlana (Retd) Two memorable defensive battles were fought south of Banihal Pass, amidst the rigours of the Pir Panjal mountains of Poonch and the undulating rough plains of Chhamb-Jaurian west of Munawar Tawi. The assaulting enemy numbered several times the men who manned the defences; however, they were met squarely with rare steadfastness, valour and dedication, inflicting crushing defeats on the enemy in both these encounters. 6 Sikh (‘Chhe’, as popularly known) occupied defences over a 13-km frontage on the heights above Poonch; two of these, Points 405 and 406, were o...

PLA holds special drive to recruit Tibetans: Indian Intelligence report By Choekyi Lhamo DHARAMSHALA, Apr. 19: China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) plans to build a Special Tibetan Army Unit as efforts to recruit more Tibetans have reportedly been stepped up amid the long-winding border standoff with India, according to an anonymous source cited by the Hindustan Times. PLA is currently holding a special recruitment drives across the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) since the beginning of this year. The source familiar with the military developments has said that PLA officials from Lhasa v...

(L) A news item reporting hundreds of Indian tanks slashed deep into Pakistan in a bid to sever the vital communication artery linking Lahore and the capital, Rawalpindi (The Australian, September 13, 1965). It was the East Bengal Regiment that saved Lahore from being over-run by Indian troops. The years 1968-1969, were a tumultuous period in the political history of the state of Pakistan. My father a Bengali civil servant from East Pakistan, was an official in the then central government in Islamabad. I was a schoolboy in the 10th grade. In February, 1968, President Ayub Khan suffered a near...

China's Ingress Into and Withdrawal From the LAC Remain Inscrutable There are a host of possible reasons on offer for the People's Liberation Army's aggression, but Beijing's moves remain swathed in obfuscation within a Chinese jalebi which defies unravelling. Indian and Chinese troops and tanks disengage from the banks of Pangong lake area in Eastern Ladakh where they had been deployed opposite each other for almost ten months now. Photo: PTI/Indian Army handout Security23/Feb/2021 Chandigarh: With the mutual pullback of Chinese and Indian troops from around the Pangong Tso having been succe...

Germany declines arms export to India for poor human rights record   Published On Germany declines arms export to India for poor human rights record ISLAMABAD (APP) - In a big snub to India, over its “poor human rights record” in the illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the German government declined license to two firms planning small arms export. Though Germany is India’s sixth-largest trading partner and its largest trading partner from the European Union, it feared that their small arms could be used against the civilian population in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (...