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    India Historical Indian War History Thread

    Neerja Bhanot was senior flight purser on the Empress of the Seas, a Pan Am 747 hijacked at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi by four armed men from the Abu Nidal organization en route to Frankfurt and New York. During a 17-hour ordeal, she helped the three-member cockpit crew escape in...
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    Pakistan's Taliban emboldened by power shift in Afghanistan

    Agreed. But once the genie is out of the bottle, best of luck putting it back in.
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    India India - China Relations

    What long term friendship? Pakistan was created in 1947. PRC in 1948. In which year did you cede your claim?
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    Pakistan's Taliban emboldened by power shift in Afghanistan

    The biggest reason is the inability of Pakistan to build a sense of nationhood. Bengalis (East Pakistan) went away first. Balochis want their freedom. Must be a domino effect in other regions.
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    India India - France Relations

    Yes. All true. That's the way of the world. Don't see Pakistan ever being in that position though. Not morally. Not financially. Not legally.
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    India India - France Relations

    China won't.
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    India India - France Relations

    Well, good of the Minister to show the correct legal map. Matter of time before other civilized nations follow suit.
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    India Historical Indian War History Thread

    Yogendra Singh Yadav Param Vir Chakra Citation Grenadier Yogendra Singh Yadav was part of the leading team of Ghatak Platoon tasked to capture Tiger Hill on the night of 3/4 July 1999. The approach to the top was steep, snow bound and rocky. Grenadier Yogendra Singh Yadav, unmindful of the...
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    India Historical Indian War History Thread

    The Param Vir Chakra is India's highest War Time gallantry award. The last time it was awarded was in 1999 The Ashok Chakra is India's highest Peace Time gallantry award. This thread is about those that received the two highest gallantry awards. Feel free to add their achievements
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    India India - China Relations

    True. But after a certain threshold, the size of the economy is no longer relevant. India is at that threshold where there is certainly no dearth of funds. Agreed about the lack of debate and no action over the past several decades.
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    India India - China Relations

    As I said, inexperienced or not in high altitude warfare, they have the raw materials, money, processes and project management skills to plan, build and execute infrastructure projects along the borders faster than we can.
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    India India - China Relations

    What if China loses part to Afghanistan? Or India? Or occupied Xinjiang or occupied Tibet becomes free?
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    India India - China Relations

    What citizenship do these hold?
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    Any Kashmiri journalist will face punitive action under black laws for reporting truth IoK

    Don't reply to this thread since no place called IoK exists. There is only PoK and the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir. Would you respond to a claim about a fictional place like Narnia?
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    India India - China Relations

    Good to know.
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    India India - China Relations

    Recently Kashmiri athlete Arif Khan was the only one representing India in Winter Olympics at Beijing. China did not seem to have an issue with it. Earlier they used to staple visas or reject visas of Indian citizens from parts of India. Is China finally accepting Kashmir as integral part of...
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    India Coffee House

    We did. His name was Nehru.
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    India Coffee House

    Probably the song which defined her the most -
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    India Coffee House

    Sad https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/story/lata-mangeshkar-s-death-govt-announces-2-days-national-mourning-1909347-2022-02-06 two days of national mourning in the memory of legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar. Known as the 'Nightingale of India', Lata Mangeshkar passed away at Candy Breach...
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    India Coffee House

    I didn't say Indian Muslims have issues with Parsis and other. I said the other way around. But OK.

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