INDO-PAKISTANI WAR OF 1971
December 5, 2007
Above: Map of Kashmir Region
It was a major war between India and Pakistan, which finally led to the Bangladesh Liberation War or the Pakistani Civil War. Exact dates are under dispute. The battle in western India from 3rd to 16th December 1971 is termed the Indo-Pakistani war by both India and Bangladesh. Within two weeks Pakistan suffered a humiliating defeat.
Above: Picture of Sheik Mujibur Rahman
INDO-PAKISTANI WAR OF 1965
December 5, 2007
Above: Map of Pakistan during the Second Kashmir War
The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, or Second Kashmir War, was the culmination of a series of hostilities that occurred between April 1965 and September 1965 between India and Pakistan. The war was the second one fought between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, the first having been fought in 1947. The war lasted for five weeks, resulted in thousands of casualties on both sides and it ended in a United Nations (UN) ordered ceasefire.
Above: Scene during the Second Kashmir War
Italo-Turkish War (TURKO-ITALIAN WAR - 1912)
December 5, 2007
Above: Map during Trablusgarp Savasi
In Italy this war between Turkey and Italy was known as Guerra di Libia or The Libyan War and in Turkey as Trablusgarp Savasi. It was a conflict between the Ottoman Turks and Italy. Lasting from 29th September to 18th October it is also known in history as The Tripolitan War.
Above: Italian soldiers firing against enemy Turks at Tripoli
Libya at that time consisted of the Turkish provinces of Tripolitania and Cyremaoca together with Rhodes Island and the archipelago of Dodecanese, with a Greek speaking population, near Anatolia. Italy seized these regions from the Ottoman Turks.
