garkhun villager tashi namgyal’s report served as the first detection of the well-planned intrusion by the pakistan army in kargil sector in 1999. similar tips from the locals in other areas, proved to be the tip of the iceberg. gradually, it became evident that pakistan had resorted to another military misadventure. after having failed in 1947-48, 1965, and 1971 in severing the link between srinagar and leh via drass-kargil axis, an ‘ugly stability’ prevailed in kargil sector for a long time. however, it d
Fifty-two years ago, on March 26, 1971, Bangladesh came into existence after a bloody liberation from Pakistan. With the partition of India and Pakistan,
Under President Ayub Khan, a military decision was taken that the defence of the East lies in the West based on the principle that if the military was split between the two wings, neither of them would have been able to resist the Indian army