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The show is on a new Hindi news channel called Focus News on Friday nights at 9:00 pm and Saturday nights at 7:00 pm. You can watch one of the episodes right here: 1971 India-Pakistan War: Loyalty April 17, 2014 This is the second post of a four-part series on India-Pakistan 197...
The official name of India is The Republic of India and is bordered by Pakistan, China, Burma, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan. It is the second most populous country with over 1.2 billion people and the most populous democracy in the world. The capital city is New Delhi and the official ...
Pakistan, their parents are never sure whether they will ever see them again: two Hindu sisters in Dahrki in Sindh’s Ghotki district, both minors, were kidnapped, converted to Islam and forced into a shotgun wedding. A group of ‘influential’ men took 13-year-old Raveena and 15-y...
While India has an upper class that enjoys a lifestyle similar to those of Western and East Asian elites, many of its citizens live in poverty. The country is locked in a long-standing territorial dispute over Kashmir with Pakistan, which has led to military clashes. In 2008, terrorists ori...
The extra memorial beneath the arch honours the lives lost in the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. #3 Explore more than five thousand years of Indian culture at the National Museum The National Museum provides a good overview of Indian culture and history. At a trot you can see the museum in ...
in 1947. The subcontinent was divided into the secular state of India and the smaller Muslim state of Pakistan. A third war between the two countries in 1971 resulted in East Pakistan becoming the separate nation of Bangladesh. Despite impressive gains in economic investment and output, India ...
Pakistan, with a majority of Muslims; the eastern portion of Pakistan later split off to formBangladesh. Many British institutions stayed in place (such as theparliamentary systemof government); English continued to be a widely used lingua franca; and India remained within theCommonwealth. Hindi ...
inPunjab.Urdu, the official language ofPakistan, is also the language of most Muslims of northern and peninsular India as far south asChennai(Madras).Sindhiis spoken mainly by inhabitants of theKachchhdistrict of Gujarat, which borders the Pakistani province ofSindh, as well as in other areas ...
DuringWorld War IIPatel rejected as impractical Gandhi’s nonviolence in the face of the then-expected Japanese invasion of India. On the transfer of power, Patel differed with Gandhi in that Patel realized that thepartitionof the subcontinent into Hindu India and MuslimPakistanwas inevitable, and...