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Col Karuna is the most hated tamil in the world today. He cannot go anywhere without his Sinhalese bodyguards or else he would be killed. He is considered a traitor by tamils because of which the LTTE was defeated.

The attack on Jamrud coincided with the rajkumar's wedding ceremonies. With the exception of Hari Singh Nalwa, the best of the troops, generals and officers were recalled for the wedding. The troops in Jamrud were mostly inexperienced ones which shows from the fact that they made the mistake of...

True Ahmad shah Abdali never looted the punjabi muslims, but neither did the Sikhs. Sikhs only looted the mughal government. And later the sikhs began looting the Afghans while they were on their way back to Afghanistan after looting Delhi. So sikhs were looters who were looting the looters:-)...

Jamrud was not the first major battle for hari singh. Since the day he was recruited into the army he fought every major battle till his death. He fought in in kasur, multan, kashmir and all the major battles in the nw frontier. He was especially good in dealing with insurgencies. He knew how...

The battle of jamrud can be considered a stalemate. Victory of the Afghans was in the death of Hari Singh only. The Lahore Durbar still managed to retain hold over Jamrud fort which was repaired after the death of Hari Singh. As you have mentioned, this time the Afghans came prepared. Dost...

Although looting played a part in this. But as many here have said, Ahmad Shah was friendly with the Punjabi Muslims, he never looted them as his descendents did. But there are some factors which resulted in Punjabi Muslims siding with Sikhs instead of Pashtuns. When Ahmad Shah conquered Punjab...

water car engineer and shark2, I wasn't going to reply about this but your ignorance to too much to be ignored. Marathas and Sikhs cannot be compared. It's like comparing apples to oranges. Marathas were a numerous people and majority in their homeland in Maharashtra. Sikhs on the other hand...

Absolutely correct. The rise of the Sikhs was possible due to the support that was given by the majority population. It seems historically during that time period there was mistrust between Punjabi Muslims and Afghans. Before the rise of Ranjit Singh when he was one of many chiefs of Punjab...

People like water car engineer are an example of ignorance that is so rampant in our country. I was thinking of writing a rebuttal to his ignorance but then I thought this guy is probably not even a Maratha himself, yet is trolling on this thread.

From this it can be concluded that Dilasa Khan probably understood the game of the British despite his hostility with the Sikhs, this is something very rare. What's interesting is that the Pashtuns under Sikh occupation were open to the British but the Pasthuns of Afghanistan who had just fought...

No, Sikhs were never anti Muslim. They were anti Afghan(when Abdali invaded) or Anti Mughal.

Historian Hari Ram Gupta writes on this: The Maharaja conquered Bannu in 1835, but assigned it to the Nawab of Derah Ismail Khan on payment of an annual tribute of Rs. 60,000. It could be collected only with the help of troops. In 1832, Tara Singh, at the head of 2000 irregular cavalry with 4...

that's the thing, topics like this can be very interesting to discuss since you learn a lot of new things regarding history of the region. Unfortunately, people trolling always ruin it.

But Mughal empire was richer

Hard to chose between Pak army and Turkey. Iran is probably is a close second

This war was the first time in the modern era that an Asian power had defeated a modern European superpower. This war also had long lasting consequences. It showed the Germans that they have nothing to fear in regards to their eastern border and became bold enough to fight ww1 on the western front.

I've heard of Ghotna method. The militants were ruthless but Punjab police took ruthlessness to a whole new level never before seen in Punjab. They had created such creative and sophisticated methods of torture. It was this ruthlessness of PP which eventually finished off militants.

I don't think anyone can be as ruthless as the Punjab police. They used such torture methods that had been unused since the Mughal era. Torture methods such as boiling someone alive. They did this to Bhai Gurdev Singh Debu because he would not open his mouth and give the names and where abouts...

Drinking from the scull of a defeated enemy was a custom that was known in Iran and central Asia. Over 500 years ago there was an Uzbek warlord named Muhammad Shaybani who had expanded his domains all over central Asia. This powerful warlord had completely defeated Babur when Babur was still...

Congress party is enemy number one of India. Today India could have been a very rich country much like the western countries had Nehru and his dynasty not been ruling India since 1947.