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  • and Kashmir from Pakistan with the intention of fomenting an insurgency among ... neighbors, the first since the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. Its success, as ...
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  • during the mid-1960s, and the President of Pakistan from 1958 to 1969 ... Ayub Khan was born in the village of Rehana in Haripur District to ...
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  • 1917 – August 10, 1980) was the President of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971 ... Awami League won the largest number of seats, the result was quashed ...
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  • Since the creation of the separate states of India and Pakistan in ... Pakistan had been carved from out of India as a homeland for the ...
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  • The Bangladesh War of Independence or the Bangladesh Liberation War ... Pakistan's partition from India in 1947 had arisen from the ...
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  • The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, or Pakistan, is a country located ... in the world. Its territory was a part of the pre-partitioned British ...
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  • in East Pakistan and the founding leader of Bangladesh. He headed the Awami ... East Pakistani politics and within the ranks of the Awami League as a charismatic ...
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  • The political integration of India established a united nation for ... in ending the British Raj on August 15 1947, India's leaders faced ...
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  • the Indo-Aryan language. Populations of Dravidian speakers live mainly ... The origins of the Dravidian people and language has been difficult ...
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  • The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, (I) May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir. The infiltration of ...
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  • 11, 1948) was a major political leader of the All India Muslim League ... to quit the Congress. He then took charge of the Muslim League and proposed ...
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  • Kush mountain range in the Chitral district of the North-West Frontier Province ... The culture of Kalash people is unique and differs drastically from ...
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  • politician who served as the President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 ... Bhutto was executed in 1979 for allegedly authorizing the murder of ...
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  • , Urdu: لدّاخ; "land of high passes") is a province ... came to an end in 1834 C.E. when Gulab Singh of Jammu conquered it. The British ...
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  • Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie Kt. (June 19, 1947 - ) is an Indian-born ... The title refers to several verses of the Qur'an that were later ...
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  • Urdu: کشمیر) is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Historically ... wars over the territory. The Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 established the ...
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  • The People's Republic of Bangladesh lies in a corner of South ... for whom what is called the "myth of return" never quite dies ...
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  • 31, 1984) nee Nehru) was Prime Minister of India from January 19, 1966 ... Daughter of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and ...
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  • Gandhāra is the name of an ancient, extinct kingdom once located ... The Kingdom of Gandhara lasted from around the sixth century B.C.E ...
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  • By extension, Himalayas is also the name of the massive mountain system ... Pakistan, and Afghanistan. It is the source of three of the world's major ...
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  • in Pakistan after Karachi, and the capital of Punjab province. It is popularly ... Much of Lahore's architecture from the Mughal and colonial eras ...
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  • – May 27, 1964) was a political leader of the Indian National Congress ... U.N. intervention to stop the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. Fearing communal ...
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  • - August 16, 2018) was the Prime Minister of India, briefly in 1996, and ... in his native language, Hindi. His vision of India was that of an ancient ...
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  • The Republic of India (Hindi: भारत गणराज्य ... which resulted in wars in Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, Indo-Pakistani ...
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  •  500 B.C.E.) is the period in the history of India during which the Vedas ... The literary legacy, however, does take us back to one of very earliest ...
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  • Karachi (كراچى) is the capital of the province of Sindh, and ... A large influx of economic and political migrants and refugees from ...
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  • Zanskar is a subdistrict or tahsil of the Kargil district, which lies ... The people of Zanskar have subsisted, until recently, in nearly total ...
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  • , abbreviated as IR, refers to a Department of the Government of India, under ... India's rail transport, constitutes one of the largest and busiest rail ...
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  • #039;bʊl]) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan, as well as an ... a strategic location along the trade routes of Southern and Central Asia. ...
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  • , known as Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale of India), was a child prodigy ... She is remembered as a champion of women's rights, of Hindu-Muslim ...
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  • 749.jpg|thumb|200px|left|First arrival of the Roma outside Berne in the ... |langs=Romani, languages of native region }} The Roma people (singular ...
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  • 1988) was the president and military ruler of Pakistan from July 1977 to ... During his tenure, he advanced the Islamization of Pakistan and carried ...
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  • 15, 1950), a political and social leader of India, played a major role ... Sardār), which means Chief in many languages of India. ...
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  • border connecting the Indian state of Sikkim with the Tibet Autonomous ... Nathu La constitutes one of the three trading border posts between ...
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  • central northern India, occupies a plateau of volcanic origin in the western ... Malwa has experienced wave after wave of empires and dynasties ruling ...
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  • The Kingdom of Mysore (Kannada ಮೈಸೂರು ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯ ... Sheshanna and T.Chowdiah, became a center of Carnatic music. During this ...
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  • (Nepali/Hindi: गंगटोक), the capital and largest town of ... and temperate climate, this hill station of about fifty thousand people ...
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  • , IPA: 'kolkat̪a]), formerly Calcutta, is the capital of the ... Kolkata served as the capital of India during the British Raj until ...
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  • Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (Persian language: محمدرضا ... It was lack of his regime's religious legitimacy in the eyes ...
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  • Ahmadābād), the largest city in the state of Gujarat and the seventh-largest ... Founded in 1411, the city served as the capital of the Sultanate of ...
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  • The First Indochina War (also known as the French Indochina War, the ... and professional troops (European of the French Foreign Legion) ...
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  • 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948) was one of the most important leaders ... Despite the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, he was troubled when the government ...
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  • a royal Indian dynasty ruling large parts of southern, central and northern ... The clan that ruled from Elichpur had been a feudatory of the Badami ...
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  • The folklore of India comprises the folklore of the nation of India ... The folklore of India is distinguished from classical Sanskrit literary ...
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  • (or Lower Himalaya) in the Indian state of West Bengal, located at ... at an average elevation of 1,247 m (4,100 feet). The town serves as ...
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  • Turkey, known officially as the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti ... Turkey also contains the Sea of Marmara, which is used by geographers ...
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  • " and Janapada "foothold of a tribe," "country ... Most of the historical details about the Mahajanapadas are culled ...
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  • or Lettland), officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvian: Latvija or ... The ancient Balts of this time actively participated in the trading ...
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  • strong). Officially known as the Union of Myanmar, (also as Burma or ... this nation is the largest in Southeast Asia, and has a population ...
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  • World War II, also WWII, or the Second World War, was a global military ... The Allies were initially made up of Poland, the British Empire, France ...
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