HAFAR UL BATIN (Saudi Arabia): Warplanes roared overhead, tanks rumbled across the desert and smoke filled the sky on Thursday for the final day of what Saudi Arabia billed as the region’s biggest-ever military exercises...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Army on Saturday said that its troops are holding war games in the Thar desert...
“The exercise is being conducted in extreme desert conditions, 74km ahead of Chhor, under conventional operations setting,” it added...
IT is ironic that this year the Indian government is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its ‘victory’ in the 1965 war, though various accounts of their own diplomats, scholars and researchers make it clear that it was a deadlock before the UN declared a ceasefire on September 22, 1965...
Jaswant Singh, one of India’s topmost diplomats who has served as the finance and the defence minister in his book, India at Risk — Mistakes,...
In 1965, a year after I had appeared for my finals for my Master's in English literature, I thought it would be a good opportunity to revisit Bombay...
A couple of years earlier, I had become the editor of Eastern Film, Pakistan’s largest selling English monthly, and wanted to continue my interaction with more celebrities...
China has dismantled dozens of structures and moved vehicles to empty out entire camps along a disputed Himalayan border, where Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a face-off since last summer, satellite images released on Wednesday show...
India’s defence minister Rajnath Singh told parliament that both sides had agreed to pull back troops in “a phased, coordinated and verified manner” around Pangong Tso, after which...
Quite a few pictures from Pakistan on the popular photoblog Humans of New York’s (HONY) have recently been recovered...
According to sources, Brandon Stanton, who was recently in Pakistan publishing heart-warming images from the country on HONY’s Facebook page, had deleted a few sets of images...
These were the heady days of September 1965...
This year we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1965 war...
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rightwing Hindu nationalist government has ordered India’s armed forces to organise a ‘carnival’ to mark 50 years of a war with Pakistan in 1965, The Telegraph reported on Tuesday...
The Kolkata-based paper said the three-week long event is set to reignite a debate on whether India lost on the negotiating table what it won on the battlefield...
I was lost in thought as we were speeding by Rohri and its beautiful pre-Partition houses and their enigmatic wooden balconies, when I heard our driver ask me “Adi, do you know how this bridge and cities were saved during the 1965 War?”“No, I don’t,” I replied, rather ashamed of my lack of general knowledge...
During the Indo-Pak War of 1965, when Indian planes came to bombard this strategically important bridge, people noticed...
KARACHI: Air Marshal Mohammad Abdul Azim Daudpota — a former governor of Sindh, 1965 war veteran and ex-chairman of the Pakistan International Airlines — died in Karachi on Monday...
He joined the Pakistan Air Force Academy at Risalpur in July of the same year...
Published in Dawn, September 6th, 2015On a mobile phone? Get the Dawn Mobile App: Apple Store | Google Play...
So it is not only the soldiers that fight a war, but it is the nation as well...
When the United States joined in the First World War, for instance, the public sentiments quickly turned in favour of US intervention, backed by the intellectuals and philosophers such as John Dewey, and even the ones with the leftist leanings echoed the nationalist feelings...
Published in Dawn, September 7th, 2015On a mobile phone? Get the Dawn Mobile App: Apple Store | Google Play...
Retired Air Commodore Imtiaz Bhatti, a recipient of the Sitara-i-Jurat, Sitara-i-Imtiaz and Sitara-i-Basalat, is a decorated Pakistan Air Force (PAF) officer who served with distinction in the 1965 and 1971 Indo-Pak wars...
RAWALPINDI: Many Indian Generals in the war against Pakistan have lost battles, tanks and men...
Niranjan Prasad, GOC, 25th Indian Infantry Division, has lost something else too — his war diary...