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Malalai of Maiwand

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Malalai of Maiwand  ( د ميوند ملالۍ ‎), also known as  Malala   meaning is a  national   folk hero  of  Afghanistan  who rallied local fighters against the  British  troops at the 1880  Battle of Maiwand . She fought alongside  Ayub Khan  and was responsible for the Afghan victory at the Battle of Maiwand on 27 July 1880, during the  Second Anglo-Afghan War . She is also known as "The Afghan  Jeanne D'Arc " and as "The Afghan  Molly Pitcher " to the Western world. There are many schools, hospitals, and other institutions named after her in Afghanistan. Her story is told in the Afghan school text books. The  Pakistani  women's-rights activist  Malala Yousafzai  and  Afghan activist-politician  Malalai Joya  are named after Malalai of Maiwand.   Malalai was born in 1861 in the village of Khig, about 3 miles southwest of  Maiwand  in the southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan.During the late 1880s, for the second time, Afghanistan was occupied b

India-Pakistan Relations

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Relations between India and Pakistan have been complex due to a number of historical and political events. Relations between the two states have been defined by the violent partition of British India in 1947, the Kashmir conflict and the numerous military conflicts fought between the two nations . India and Pakistan are two immediate neighbouring countries of South-Asia. Seven decades have passed; the relations of these two unfortunate countries have never been normal and are at their lowest level today. The clash of their national interests and unresolved issues are the main reasons. Indo-Pak relations are an elaborate chapter and therefore should be seen in the light of their long historic background. India and Pakistan both had been created on the basis of “Two Nation” theory and under the formula of Hindu majority areas of the Sub-Continent as an independent sovereign India and the Muslims –majority areas as Pakistan. The hawkish Hindu political leaders of India, who had for a