The Second Kashmir War

THE SECOND KASHMIR WAR, 1965

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	An uneasy truce prevails after the cease-fire enforced at the demand of the UN Security Council. The continuing infiltration and the threatening speeches of Pakistani leaders have made the situation explosive in several sectors, and as Prime Minister Shastri has observed, the dawn of peace has yet to arrive. In this photograph, taken after the cease fire, Indian troops are seen at Dograi village on the Ichhogil Canal, Lahore with their booty of Pakistani ammunition and armour seized in a battle.
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	Major General Rajinder Singh Sparrow MVC, GOC 1st Armoured Division, leans on a captured Pakistani Patton tank in this rare color photograph, after the Battle of Assal Uttar (True Answer). It is here where Pakistan's 1st Armoured Division, consisting of American-supplied Patton tanks, suffered a humiliating defeat from the Indian Army.
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	A grateful Indian Army thanks her sister service, the Indian Air Force, for its much-needed support during the 1965 war against Pakistan: Chief of Army Staff, General J.N. Chaudhuri presents a silver replica of a Patton tank to the Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh at the Army Day Parade in New Delhi on 15 January 1966.
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	These captured Pakistani paratroopers of the 19th Baluch Regiment were specially trained for commando duties and were assigned the task of destroying the Pathankot airfield. Many of the large number of paratroopers rounded up at various places in the country have confessed that their object was to destroy vital installations.
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	A column of troops in the Haji Pir Pass. Despite vigorous counter attacks, Indian troops gained certain positions and succeeded in plugging some of the important routes through which Pakistani raiders invaded the Kashmir valley.
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	The Taste of Defeat: The superiority of Pakistan's western aid armament did not match the skill and valour of the Indian jawans. In this image the bodies of Pak Army soldiers lie in front of a captured Pakistani Sherman tank.
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	Launching a series of counter-attacks, the Indian troops have successfully beaten back the intruders who had penetrated deep into Indian territory. In this image, a section of troops prepare to chase back the raiders.
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	Sticking to their guns, our brave jawans successfully met the massive onslaught and, by timely mopping-up operations, effectively prevented a large concentration of Pak Army troops from entering Indian territory.
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	Manning the post, in this image, is Grenadier Mohammed Shafi, who killed a Pakistani Divisional Commander, with a LMG (Light Machine Gun) burst, during the war. The LMG in this picture is based on the FN-FAL rifle.
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	Accompanied by his aide, Major General Korla (right) visits the ruins of a railway station captured by his division somewhere in the Sialkot sector. The Sialkot terrain is dusty, rugged and in places, boggy.
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	Markings of Pakistani ordnance factories have been found on some of the ammunition left behind by the invaders. One of picture illustrates an American-made signalling gun with cartridges.
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	A jawan lights the cigarette which he has offered to a civilian porter somewhere in the Poonch sector. Such gestures are typical of the cordial relations between civilians and jawans.
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	Victory Dance: Somewhere in the Sialkot sector, the Divisional Commander (second from left) and a Colonel (third from left) dancing with the soldiers (Gurkhas) from their unit.
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	Reconnaissance operations in progress: a large number of armed Pakistani saboteurs were killed, captured or forced to flee across the cease-fire line by Indian troops.
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	Deserted by all, on the Pakistani retreat from Salian village in the Sialkot sector, Hasana Begum, 85, is helped to her cot outside her small home by an Indian jawan.
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