Dehradun, Sept. 3 -- Exactly sixty years ago, on 3 September 1965, India took the decision to carry the India Pakistan war beyond the international boundary into the Lahore, Sialkot and Barmer sectors to ease the pressure on Akhnur in J&K, which faced a major blitzkrieg from our adversary from 1 September. Pakistan regulars had moved into this territory to salvage the failed Operation Gibraltar which had been launched on 5 August to foment communal unrest in the Valley. In retrospect, it can be seen that from 1947-48 to the Pahalgam terror attack in April this year the one objective of the Pakistan army establishment has been to drive a wedge between the many communities and ethnicities that make up the wonderful 'Bharat Bhagya Vidhata'.
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