In March 1983, while enjoying my retirement in Varanasi, I was recalled to duty to compile the history of Indo-Pak war, 1971, which ended in a decisive victory for ...Read more >

The Indian National Congress had fought the Brithish for the establishment of a secular democratic polity. the Muslim league, on the other hand, had demanded a division of ...Read more >

The northern portion of the Rann was easily accessible from the side of Sind (Pakistan). There was also a road along the border on the Pakistani side, which was motorable during the dry ...Read more >

Pakistan evidently concluded from the brief successful military encounter with India in April 1965 over the Rann of kutch that a similar solution of the Kashmir ...Read more >

Pakistan had for some considerable time been raising a substantial irregular force trained in guerilla operations for launching aggression into jammu and Kashmir through large - scale ...Read more >

Operation Gibraltar, having failed, Pakistan put in her regular forces to the battle. Pakistan had already prepared itself for such an eventuality, after very careful ...Read more >

As already stated, Pakistan did not call off Grad Slam even when the security council for an immediate cease-fire on 4 September 1964. she even carried out an air raid on Amritsar the next ...Read more >

The newly created I Corps, commanded by Lt Gen P.O.Dunn, undertook operations in Samba - Jammu - Sialkot sector. This sector stretched between the Ravi and the Chenab ...Read more >

After the kutch crisis, the deployment of Pakistani forces opposite Rajasthan border was defensive, though a Pakistani infantry divisin was located in Hyderabad (Sind), which could create trouble in Rajasthan or in ...Read more >

The PAF had grown into a well equipped, highly trained force of about seventeen squadrons, i.e., two squadrons of B-57 bombers, one of F- 104 ...Read more >

As narrated in the earlier chapters, the 1965 War was planned neither by Pakistan nor India. One thing led to another in a process of spiraling ...Read more >

The time chosen for Pakistan attack against India, First through infiltration of armed men, and subsequently by full military action on 1 September 1965, was not favorable to her ...Read more >

While the Kutch conflict of April 1965 was caused by an accidental border clash between the para military force of India and Pakistan, the Indo - Pak war of ...Read more >

It is a necessary that after the status quo has been established in the aforesaid Gujarat/West Pakistan border area, arrangement should be made for determination and demarcation of the border in that ...Read more >