![]() Codenamed Operation NEPAL, the Indian attack in the Sialkot sector had multiple objectives: The Indian offensive against Lahore on 6th September was simultaneously followed by their main thrust along the Sialkot front on the night of the 7/8th of September. ![]() Read more: The graveyard of Indian tanks: the battles in the Sialkot sector in the 1965 war Indian Plans Indian Plans for Operations Nepal and Riddle and Pakistani deployments was a recently formed formation, still in the throes of reorganization and not yet up to division level strength when the war began. Abrar Husain, was initially located in the vicinity of Gujranwala, as Pakistani 1st Corps reserve force. Sardar Muhammad Ismail and was located in Sialkot with its brigades spread across the front. 15th Infantry Division, responsible for the defense of Sialkot proper, led by Brig.Pakistani forces in the Sialkot sector primarily consisted of: I Corps Artillery Brigade supported by 24 and 71 Medium Regiments.Indian 1st Corps, the striking arm of the Sialkot offensive consisted of the following forces: Sialkot Sector – Opposing Formations and Plans With roughly a hundred and thirty Pakistani and two hundred and thirty Indian tanks involved, Chawinda easily factors in as one of the largest conventional tank battles fought to date post World War 2. Pakistan’s actions at Chawinda were akin to the defensive battles fought by German Wehrmacht and SS-Panzer formations as they sought to counter Soviet armour-infantry breakthroughs in Eastern Ukraine by numerically superior forces in early 1943. The battle of Chawinda marked the largest clash of armour since the great tank battles of World War 2.
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