Word: pathan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decisive moment came when Pathan warriors from Pakistan invaded the vale of Kashmir and cut the electric supply to Srinagar palace. Sir Hari promptly fled to Jammu, taking with him an 85-vehicle convoy loaded with his possessions, including polo ponies, and necklaces from the temple gods. He also took along most of his own army, while unabashedly appealing to Nehru to come to the aid of the Kashmiri people. In return he offered to sign an instrument of accession by which Jammu and Kashmir became part of India. Nehru, who nourishes a sentimental attachment for Kashmir because his forbears...
Died. Mirza Ali Khan, 72, the Fakir of Ipi, leader of the fierce Pathan tribe in the rugged mountains on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, who repeatedly raided the British between 1919 and 1947, got help at times from Afghanistan and the Axis powers, who were anxious to keep the British tied up; of a heart ailment; in his mountain home in Waziristan...