1971 War
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Izzat Maxing
X.T.M answers Q’s claim that India–Pakistan wars will stay short, arguing that allies matter only for the fifth day. He tests this against 1971, Kargil, Operation Sindoor and the Gulf…
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In Remembrance of Shaheed Lt. Ashfaqus Samad, Bir Uttam (My Cousin Nishat Bhai):
A tribute, headed “by Shawkat”, to Lt. Ashfaqus Samad, a Dhaka University student who became one of the first guerrillas in Dhaka and was killed in action in the 1971…
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She Parked a Car With Her Husband. Fifty Years Later, She Is Still Waiting.
X.T.M tells the story of Damayanti Tambay, who has searched for fifty years for her husband, missing since the 1971 war, with 54 Indian personnel still unaccounted for. He argues…
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Maj General Tajammal Malik. Very Important Interview
Omar Ali reposts an old Agha H. Amin interview with Maj. Gen. Tajammal Hussain Malik, calling it a must-read on the Pakistan Army, and describes Malik as an excellent field…
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Brigadier FB Ali; the Man Who Removed Yahya Khan
Hamid Hussain’s obituary of Brigadier F. B. Ali (1929-2021) recounts his career in the Pakistan Army and his roles in the December 1971 move against Yahya Khan and an alleged…
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Major Amin’s Summing up of the 3 Major Indo-Pak Wars
Major Amin, in an extract from his history of the Pakistan army, sums up the three Indo-Pak wars, arguing that Gilgit was won in 1947 by British and Gilgit Scouts…
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General AAK Niazi, Military career
A note by Hamid Hussain on the military career of Lt Gen A. A. K. Niazi, the Eastern Command chief who surrendered in December 1971. The introduction presents it as…
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Nadir Ali 1936-2020, RIP
An obituary of Colonel Nadir Ali (1936-2020) by his son, recounting a Punjab childhood, helping rescue kidnapped girls during Partition, Pakistan Army service, a 1971 East Pakistan deployment that left…
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Bangladesh’s War of Liberation-Historicising a Personal Narrative
A talk given by retired Pakistan Army Colonel Nadir Ali at BRAC University in Dhaka in 2007, recounting his experience of 1971 in East Pakistan, his links to Bengali officers…
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The Qualitative Destruction of Pakistan Army between 1955 and 1971
An essay by retired Major A. H. Amin, written in 1999 and reposted from his Military History Centre site, arguing the Pakistan Army’s quality was eroded between 1955 and 1971…
