The Indian Centurion tanks outgunned the more modern Pakistani Patton tanks in the battle at Khem Karan, that proved the turning point of the 1965 War. Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd) salutes the ...

Indo-Pak War 1965: Man vs machine In war, the will power of Generals and Jawans alike is as important as weaponry, ... Armoured Brigade in the Khem Karan sector. ...

1965 war: Pivotal actions of Pakistani armed forces. ... As a result, enemy lines were broken and Khem Karan was recaptured, but elsewhere, Burki and the villages and towns surrounding Lahore fell.

Veteran of 1965 Indo-Pakistan War, Maj Gen Salim Caleb died after month-long illness at the military hospital in Jutogh near Shimla on Wednesday. ... Khem Karan Sector, ...

Photograph Kind courtesy, 1965-Stories from Second Indo-Pak War by Rachna Bisht Rawat. O n the morning of 1 September 1965, ... leaving troops behind in Khem Karan. Excerpted from 1965: ...

Pakistan’s Army under the country’s first military dictator, self-promoted Field Marshal Ayub Khan, was feeling very heady with a large package of arms from the United States and under the ...

The Pakistan Army, which had made advances into Khem Karan, saw fierce battles at Asal Uttar. The Armoured Division of the Pakistan Army withdrew and moved to Sialkot where we had opened a new front.

The country still claims that it won the India-Pakistan war of 1965. ... Pakistan attacked India in the Khem Karan sector, soon after the battle of Burki which India had won.

We look back at the some of the most intriguing pictures from the Indo-Pak war that lasted almost 17 days in 1965. ... A Pakistani soldier sitting next to a milestone in the Indian town of Khem Karan.

On the International Border in Khem Karan, Dec. 22: When people talk casually on television about war with Pakistan, a furrow appears on Ranjit Kaur’s forehead at her mud house in Mehdipur village.

On September 10, 1965, Abdul Hamid destroyed three Pakistani tanks in Cheema village in the Khem Karan sector with a recoilless gun mounted on a Jeep. He was killed in tank fire from the fourth ...