Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
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Obituary: Brigadier Malik Mohammed Aslam, 1938-2023
An obituary of Brigadier Malik Mohammed Aslam (1938-2023), the author’s father’s closest friend, recording his unrecorded part as a young artillery captain in the defence of Lahore in 1965, and…
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Why Did the Indian and Pakistani Armies fail in 1965?
A very long chapter from Major Agha Humayun Amin’s history of the Pakistan Army analysing why both armies failed in the 1965 war, posted whole by Omar Ali as a…
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Book Review: The 1965 War by Shaukat Riza
Major Agha H Amin reviews Major General Shaukat Riza’s officially sponsored 1984 history of the 1965 war, judging it sanitised and uncritical but valuable for its orders of battle and…
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Obituary: Brigadier Nisar Ahmed SJ
Hamid Hussain’s obituary of Brigadier Nisar Ahmad Khan (1920 to 2019), a Patiala-born officer who opted for Pakistan in 1947 and was central to an armoured holding action in the…
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Letter of General Akhtar Malik (Re Grand Slam)
A 1967 letter in which General Akhtar Hussain Malik gives his account of why he lost command during Operation Grand Slam in 1965, introduced with a short note on the…
