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December 4, 1971:
Indian fighter planes crossed the international border. We could
see them flying above our area.
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December 8, 1971:
Jessore falls to the enemy. All troops deployed ahead of us thus
fell back. We kept waiting for the enemy’s arrival at night. At
0030 hours, enemy reached our location. As per the
instructions, we moved back to a new position in order to be
able to take up defences at a more defensible ground and to be
in a position to attrite the enemy.
December 9, 1971:
At around 0200 hours, reached at a new position in front of
Khulna. Took some rest at the new defensive position. In the
morning, sited some riflemen trenches and digging started.
Occasionally the enemy fighter aircraft kept visiting our position.
We observed that they were closely followed by our aircraft, but
they were probably informed of the arrival of PAF fighters by
their radars, and thus before the arrival of PAF jets, they used
to make an escape towards their side of the international
border. In any case, we carried on with the preparation of our
defences uninterrupted as the enemy was still far away. The
next night those deployed ahead of us came back. One of our
companies was deployed ahead of us as a screen.
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night, the enemy kept firing one odd round, which had a
sedative effect on us and we fell asleep. The enemy used air,
artillery and armour in succession. When artillery would pause,
tank fire would commence and when tanks would take a break,
air would start engagement. Despite all this, somehow we
managed to have a sound sleep and were in high spirits. At
around 1130 hours, five Gnat fighter aircraft of the enemy
attacked our positions with rockets, machine gun fire and
bombing. They attacked our position five times, but failed to
cause any casualty. At around 2100 hours, enemy attacked
again under the cover of heavy artillery shelling but the attack
was repulsed. During the attack, our artillery fired star shells
which illuminated the whole area in front of us and we were able
to engage the enemy with accurate fire. The enemy would turn
on the tank engines, move them forward a bit and then pull
them back, just to demoralize our troops. But our troops,
despite knowing that they were surrounded by the enemy, were
in unbelievably high spirits. The area where the enemy wished
to make a dent, was so heavily shelled that it appeared as if the
land over there had been turned upside down. Had the enemy
troops been exposed to such a volume of fire, they would
probably have even doffed their uniforms, considering them
heavy, and fled away. Mysteriously, despite this intense artillery
shelling, we did not suffer any significant damage. After having
failed to make any breakthrough, the enemy attacked the unit
on our flank at around 0730 hours (December 15) but the
enemy did not achieve anything there either except failure and
disappointment.
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much damage. SU-7 aircraft also flew over our positions for the
first time. At 1740 hours the enemy artillery started engaging
our positions and the fire continued through the night.
Note:
Captain Arjumand Yar Khand, 15 FF Regiment mentioned later
in this article, embraced shahadat on this day (December 15,
1971). Here's a narration of his brave fight and ultimate
martyrdom, by Brigadier Mehboob Qadir:
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E-mail: tariqbarki1976@gmail.com
3 Mehboob Qadir, Fall from Grace, The Centre for Policy and
Media Studies, (http://cpmspak.org/pdf/Fall from
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Grace.pdf)
http://hilal.gov.pk/index.php/layouts/item/2443-1971-
war-as-i-saw-it
@Ulla
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Than one day I asked the question but was never prepared for
the story i am about to share for the very first time...
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The lonesome Soldier did not allow the enemy to stain his
Khaki... He returned to his Mother and Motherland as a BRAVE
GHAZI and both he and Gen Musharraf went on to name their
sons Bilal after their friend, Bilal Rana Shaheed.
Captain Ahsan Malik, the brave son of soil. Who was not
just a part of history but created history himself.
Changing the face of war and falsifying the principal of
man power and weapons in the battle field, Captain Malik
not only became a beacon for the Pakistani Nation but
also compelled the enemy to add him in its war
curriculum.
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Captain Ahsan Malik, the brave son of soil. Who was not just a part of history
himself. Changing the face of war and falsifying the principal of man power an
battle field, Captain Malik not only became a beacon for the Pakistani Nation
the enemy to add him in its war curriculum.
After a struggle of many years, we present first ever interview of Colonel (R) A
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"If you take out this Pakistani flag and give it to us, we will let
you go… or… prepare to die" this was the warning given to the
Major who was also their company commander, by the
traitorous East Bengal Rifles, accompanied by Mukti Bahini.
"Me and take the Pakistani flag out? Not in a million years" was
the answer by Major along with a shower of bullets.
The argument now turned into a fierce battle.
The background of this argument was that a Bengali NCO of the
unit was very abusive to his jawans and often abused them. The
Major called the NCO to his office and told him that refrain from
such practice. The NCO came out of the office and said that
Company Commander has permitted him to disgrace the jawans
as much as possible. A jawan who was a witness to this whole
situation argued that it is absolutely wrong. The argument
turned into a fight. The Major came out of his office and tried to
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On the other hand Captain Ahsaan Malik did not lose his nerve
when much worse was happening in his area and he was
fighting an unwinnable battle against overwhelming odds.
Capt Maalik and his 140 odd men demoralized the Indian troops
and commanders who had a massive force on their side,by
repulsing every attack and not giving in.
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Asgard said: ↑
Lol.
Source is ISPR propaganda magazine Hilal.
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foxtrot1 said: ↑
Arun Khetralpal was just 21 and refused to abandon his half blown
Tank till last breath as the gun was still working and managed to
destroy 10 Pakistani Tanks before taking the second hit and KIA
There are many such situations both on India and Pakistani sides.
1055 Hours
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Sarge said: ↑
Indeed, the greatest fantasy a soldier may have is to face the enemy
sonicboom
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in battle and pitch his skills against him. The soldiers with no practical
experience of a real battlefield, often wonder what it would be like to
be in actual combat. Likewise, ever since my induction in the army, I
was also curious about the real
Clickfeel of war And more importantly to
to expand...
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Joined: Mar 13, 2009 Great read. My dad was also a POW. He was originally sent to
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Khulna and then later deployed in Jessore sector. He was in
Fategarh camp, India.
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foxtrot1 said: ↑
That was the first time India went fully offensive and with an agenda
not to defend and totally out as Indira Gandhi wanted the division at
any cost even if the economy falls or western sector is opened.
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naveedullahkhankhatt even if india didn't have sent so many soldiers they would have
ak won. given the disadvantages Pakistan had in Bengal. it would
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have been a lot tougher war with no result if Pakistan army
supplies were not blocked. Remember they were fighting
thousand of kilometers away from other half.
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Also indian intelligence agencies did well in creating such
Joined: Jan 22, 2015 scenario. Some help was given by Pakistani leaders.
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and all culprits were caught but our politicians wanted to break
pakistan at any cost because they were not been able to get
votes in east pakistan. similarly east pakistan politicians were
not able to even nominate a single candidate in west pakistan.
This was supposed to happen at any cost.
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Lol.
Source is ISPR propaganda magazine Hilal.
Zero neutrality.
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East pakistan had cyclone and natural disaster for 10-13 years
that is why we lost that region due to lack strong ground
structure. Floods also caused major damage to economy (illegal
excess water release)
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We also lacked tremendous amount of resources & navy
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Allah ho Akbar.
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sonicboom said: ↑
Great read. My dad was also a POW. He was originally sent to Khulna
and then later deployed in Jessore sector. He was in Fategarh camp,
India.
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