Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your cover story on the war in Asia [Sept. 17] is the most factual piece I have read. Not only have you dug up the background, but you have interpreted the Pakistani way of thinking. In April, I returned from Pakistan. We all knew then that this fight was coming: the Paks were painting their ground equipment battle-grey over the original yellow, were building revetment for their aircraft, etc. Thank you for your article. It will be saved for my son's children...
...Buzzards wheel overhead and settle with a flourish of wings on the swollen carcasses of water buffalo. Dogs prowl through the rubble, stirring up black clouds of flies, as they try to reach putrid human flesh buried beneath the mud bricks and roof tiles of shattered houses. A few Pakistani police patrol the streets to prevent looting but, otherwise, Kasur is a blend of stomach-turning smells and silence...
...column advancing on Kasur had been the southernmost of four columns whose aim seemed to be to encircle and capture Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city. The Indians now claim that all four drives were decoys. Each column advanced only a few miles into Pakistani territory and then dug in: infantry in the front line, tanks huddled beneath trees and behind houses in the second, and in the third, artillery massed beneath camouflage netting. The Indians reasoned that Pakistan would have to drive these four columns from their soil or lose both the military and the political initiative...
Horseshoe Trap. According to New Delhi, the major Pakistani counterattack was directed at the Indians before Kasur, which was chosen as the target because a Pakistani breakthrough would permit either a drive toward New Delhi or an attack northward that would cut across the Indian rear. The assault was mounted by the 1st Armored Division, reputed to be the best in the Pakistan army. The Indian strategy resembled that of Hannibal when he caught the Romans in a baglike trap and decimated them at Cannae. The Pakistani armored column burst through the first Indian line and plunged on only...
...Kasur, the Indians claim to have captured or destroyed nearly half of, the 1st Armored's 220 tanks and to have killed two Pakistani generals in the process. Since generals are seldom found in armored spearheads, the Indians explain their presence on the field as owing to the fact that "the battle was going so badly...