Word: fazilka
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...mind. Three days before the Sant's scheduled bonfire, she announced that Chandigarh would go to the Sikhs; in compensation, the Hindu state would be given $26 million for a new capital, and in addition would be ceded a part of the Punjab's fertile Fazilka precinct containing 114 Hindi-speaking villages...
...Fazilka, a farm town south of Lahore, a 100-man Indian company politely asked a band of 1,000 Pakistani marauders to withdraw. At that, claimed the outraged Indians, the Pakistanis opened fire with their rifles. Out numbered 10 to 1, the Indians had no choice but to fight. They killed 59 Paks, while losing only eleven men themselves...
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