India and Pakistan had formally entered into a war by December 3, 1971, after months of escalating tensions over the situation in East Pakistan. Indian Army soldiers and Indian Air Force officers manning the western front in the Thar were alerted. One hundred and twenty soldiers of the battalion of 23 Punjab regiment, to which Vir belonged, had been stationed at the Longewala border post for months in anticipation of war. As soon as news of the declaration of war reached them, Major Kuldip Chandpuri (played by Sunny Deol in the film), pressed the men into action.
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Puran Chand Sharma
Our wily neighbour Pakistan came into existence on Aug 14, 1947 when the Political Leadership of united India at that point of time was constrained to accept partition of the country in lieu of granting freedom. But despite getting separate Homeland they were never contented and instead persisted with hostile and inimical approach towards our country.
Soon after their birth they did not concentrate on stabilization and development but launched unprovoked armed assault on Jammu and Kashmir which was yet to take final call on accession with India and usurped major chunk of our territory. They did not stop here but relentlessly continued with their nasty mischief and ugly tricks. They resorted to pushing trained Guerrillas inside Kashmir to jeopardize our internal security and subsequently triggered armed invasion on the borders in 1965 which concluded with their crushing defeat.