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Northern Alliance wasn't in power post Taliban. An Interim Govt. led by an ethnic Pashtun - Hamid Karzai took over. Of course it had elements from the Northern Alliance. Pakistan didn't know that the power vacuum created by the overthrow of the Taliban would largely be filled by leaders of the...

Of course that day Indian Armed Forces had poor coordination - that resulted in friendly fire shooting down a chopper. @500 is right in his assessment. Indians wrongly assumed that Pakistani forces crossed the LoC. After Kargil, apparently that seems to be red line and Pakistanis are averse to...

Pakistanis claim they have ruled India for a 1000 years? Lol. Fact is what is present day Pakistan has been ruled by Hindus / Buddhists for 4000 years. After that by Sikhs, Central Asians, Marathas, Brits and post independence by the Americans and now the Chinese as colonies. Are you now...

Have they signed a ToT agreement?

But why?

Of course the Germans were an excellent fighting force. They occupied all of Western continental Europe. The comparison to Pakistan which has lost all the wars it has ever fought in its history can be seen as flattering. I get your point. Perhaps you have been reading the wrong sources if you...

It's possible the Pakistanis shot down more aircraft that Indians did - it needs to be factored in that India flew a lot more sorties. It's like saying the Allies lost more soldiers than the Germans at Normandy. That has to do with the fact that toward the end of the war, Germans did not have...

The Indian Army and paramilitary forces are in India and obviously need to secure its borders. The ISI and Pakistani policies have repeatedly failed - doesn't mean they won't try again. The hiding that Pakistan received in 1965 didn't stop it from trying to grab Siachen which it couldn't in 1984...

At the end of the day ISI / Pakistan were overconfident - they thought they were somehow responsible for the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan and that India would also fold under the same low-cost Mujahideen tactics. Fairly stupid considering - 1. The Americans only used the Pak forces as cheap...

Discussing Galwan at 15 mins Includes fatal and non fatal

These are not civilian aircraft. Military equipment to certain regimes is forbidden. And yea, India was in the same boat when it used a Canadian nuclear reactor for its nuke program to produce plutonium. So it's not as if I am saying any country should get a free pass. I don't even trust this...

No one suggested India is Sweden. PS: I lived in Malmo for a while. I wonder why I came back. :) Varanasi is not a typical Indian city. Some Indian members can correct me if I am wrong but it is the oldest continuously inhabited city in India, perhaps the world. Maybe a typical Indian city...

You are entitled your views. I have seen vlogs where the difference is that women on the Indian side of Punjab work and drive two wheelers and the infrastructure is significantly better on the Indian side. Urdu is a central Indian language. Sorry to burst your bubble but 99% of verbs are of...

You've nailed it. Many Pakistanis you meet abroad know more about Indian movies than Indians do. Their national language is from Central India. Their founding father Jinnah is an ethnic Gujarati. The other guy who he appointed as PM was from Central India. So it's a severe identity crisis for...

Tibetans and Uighurs both deserve their independence.

This is all true AFAIK. I would have thought India started to get ahead of Pak in the late 90s, but if your data suggests it happened only in 2008 then it might be accurate. Also, lest we forget India did not actually have too many industries when the British left. There were some mills in...

Your argument is based on Lahore being some kind of crown jewel. Is it though? And what can we do if the US kept bailing West Pakistan out? Kissinger: No. Well they understand it now, believe me. Nixon: Yeah. See the point is, our desire is to save West Pakistan. That’s all. Kissinger...

Of course he states 100 tanks lost by India and 60 by Pak in Battle of Chawinda

Sure. I am merely quoting a scholarly work published by the Cambridge University Press which clearly states that the Battle of Chawinda was inconclusive. You have every right to post an article from the Australian which has a contrary view. I am yet to see a single neutral source like the...

The Battle of Chawinda was in the Sialkot sector and not in the Lahore sector. Now I am sure, Pakistanis are more familiar with the geography of their country than I am. Isn't Chawinda a little further than Lahore? Also, in case of Chawinda, it definitely slowed down the Indian advance but when...