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Word: baluchi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wagah, a little town on the grand trunk highway between Amritsar and Lahore on the Pakistan side of the border, armed Baluchi troops, all certified Moslems from the frontier territory of Baluchistan, called a loud halt to travelers trying to go through the border. A mile down the road, at Atari, armed Dogras, who are a Punjabi Hindu tribe, searched and checked all Pakistan-bound vehicles. The mile between the two posts was no man's land. On the Pakistan side, just behind an improvised guardhouse, a bulldozer was digging graves for Moslem bodies which arrived from the India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA-PAKISTAN: The Trial of Kali | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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