It remains to be seen how Gen Asim Munir will respond to Imran Khan’s incendiary words. The May 9 events set the army chief, Gen Asim Munir, squarely against Imran Khan. As Pakistan marked the anniversary of May 9, it became clear that the army and its fellow political travelers have not succeeded in entirely rooting out the Imran Khan …
Henry Kissinger lived to be one hundred years old. As President Richard Nixon and President Gerald Ford’s national security adviser from 1969 to 1975 and then concurrently secretary of state to both the Presidents between 1973 and 1977, Kissinger oversaw a tumultuous period in American foreign policy and statecraft, including the escalation and subsequent ignominious withdrawal from Vietnam. Henry Kissinger …
Our stories drive our heritage. The film doesn’t weave properly all the incidents in the life of Sam Manekshaw in the form of a well-knit story but passes on from one incident to another, sometimes rather superficially. The film establishes the friendship between Sam Manekshaw and Yahya Khan but doesn’t showcase the rivalry between the two during the 1971 war. …
1971 was a seminal year in the history of the Indian subcontinent. On March 25, 1971, the West Pakistan Army launched Operation Searchlight massacring over 7,000 Bengali intellectuals and other important opinion makers in a night-long operation in Dhaka alone. The decisively routed West Pakistan Army finally surrendered on December 16, 1971, to Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Aurora. Both he …
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