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https://defence-blog.com/army/china-reportedly-begin-delivery-of-modern-vt4-to-pakistan.html2 Inner Mongolia First Machinery Group Co.,Ltd., subsidiary of China North Industries Group Corporation (NORINCO), reportedly begins delivering new VT4 main battle tanks to Pakistan. In mid-April 2020...

Hereunder is the account of Major Shamshad Ali Khan of 25 Cavalry ( then a Second Leutinant) who fought the battle of Buttar Dogran Di (1500 yards west of Chawinda) on 17 Sept 1965 as a Troop Leader, the same battle as described by Maj Ashok Nath of 17 Poona Horse: Battle if Buttar Dograndi...

The heli was shot down on 12 Sept. The pilot and its passenger Col Staff 6 Armored Division escaped from the heli after it was shot down while landing. The pilot was suppose to land at Kaleowali, 2 miles short of Phillora but had mistskenly overflown the the landing site and began landing close...

The Dastan e shahadat of those six officers of Pakistan Army who met their creator on this day of 10th Sept 1965, exactly 50 years ago, while defending their motherland: Brig Ahsan Rashid Shami Hilal e Jurat, Artillery Commander of 1 Armoured Division in Kasur secor. The Artillery deployed in...

Armour and infantry both! Thanks to all for a warm welcome!

Col Arshad Nazir Chisty, then a Leuitenant and a Platoon Commander, recalls the actions of his battalion on 8th Sept 1965 at Chawinda, with a sense of absolute pride and sparks in his eyes: 13 Frontier Force, a Recce and Support Battalion of Pakistan Army was deployed in defence of Sialkot...

The officers of Pak army who embraced shahadat on 9th Sept 1965. Major Muhammad Ashraf Khan of 13 FF Recce & Support Battalion. This battalion was serving under the command of 15 Division and was responsible for defending the entire Sialkot sector from Chaprar in the north to Jassar in the...

The officers of Pak army who embraced shahadat on 7th and 8th Sept 1965. Major Dost Mohammad Khan Utra of 6 Lancers armoured Crops. He embraced Shahadat on 7 sept 1965 in Khem Karan sector. 6 Lancers led the assault on Khem Karan and was the first Pakistani regiment to enter into Khem Karan...

Major Shamshad Ali Khan took part in the battle for Chawinda as a Troop Leader ( commander of 4 tanks) in C Squadron (consisting of 15 tanks) of 25 Cavalry ( total 44 tanks), the regiment which blunted the attack of the Indian First Armoured Division (266 tanks) plus 3 infantry Divisions . He...

The officers of Pak army who embraces shahadat on this day of 6th Sept exactly 50 years back: Captain Islam Ahmed Khan of 27 Field Regt Artillery. This officer embraced Shahadat on 6 Sept 1965, at Devipur, near the town of Akhnoor in Indian Held Kashmir. He was a Forward Observer of his...

Gen Jogindar Singh, the Chief of Staff to Gen Harbaksh Singh, pays tribute to the IAF in following words in his book titled "Behind the Scenes": "There is no excuse whatsoever for the lack of air support on 6 Sept on the Lahore and Khem Karan sectors. HQ XI Corps could have duplicated its...

Martyr of this day of 4th Sept 1965 at Chamb-Jourian battlefield Major Bashir Ahmed Qazi of 12 Frontier Force Regiment. 12 FF was a Recce & Support battalion made up of a force consisting of jeep mounted Machine Guns and anti-tank Rifles known as RRs. A Recce & Support Battalion consisted of a...

BehramNam – Special Advisor to Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi, on his article on Gen. Zia-ul-Haq’s visit to India, write: “Pakistan President General Zia-ul-Haq arrived in New Delhi (enroute to Chennai to watch the Pakistan-India Test Match) without any invitation. At that time, Indian PM was not ready...

Officers of Pak Army who embraced shahadat on this day of 3rd Sept 1965, 50 years ago: Captain Ghulam Murtaza Cheema of 127 Light Aid Detatchment Regiment. This fine officer embraced Shahadat on 3 sept 1965 near Jourian in Indian Held Kashmir. This Light Aid Detatchment commanded by Captain...

Operation Grand Slam is best described in words of Brig Mahmud who took part in the operation as Commanding Officer of 1st Army Aviation Squadron from 1 Sept 1965 to 6 Sept 1965. As the tanks and the infantry rolled out of their positions from the FUP, on 1 September 1965 at 0500 hours, the...

On 1st Sept 1965, an unarmed Lt Col Naseer ullah Khan Babar, while hunting for war souveniers on the opening day of the Chamb Operations, took 55 Indian soldiers as POWs and marched them some 10 miles back to the Head Quarters to everyones disbelief. This officer from Army Aviation was awarded a...

Source is Regimental Diary of 17 Poona Horse

Following are the excrepts from the Regimental Diary of 17 Poona Horse, the forward most attacking armoured regiment of Indian 1st Armoured Division . Poona Horse rolled into Sialkot sector from Ramgarh on the mornning of 8 Sept 1965 and encountered the first Pak resistance a couple of...

Hello everyone I am a retired engineer with interest in indo-pak military history. The 1965 battles at Chawinda and Lahore fascinate me. Hope to see some goof discussions going here.

The story of Major Sheikh Mobarik Ali shaheed Sitar e Jurat, an officer of Pakistan Army who had his roots in todays Bangladesh. This officer from Bengal displayed extra-ordinary grit, courage, valor and detremination in fighting the Indians at Batapur, Wagha sector in 1965: Major Sheikh...