One factor on which Pakistan has always been way ahead of India is defence spending, and that's one big reason why it's losing the five wars shown in the graphs.
The 1965 Indo-Pak war lasted barely a month. Pakistan made gains in the Rajasthan desert but its main push against India's Jammu-Srinagar road link was repulsed and Indian tanks advanced to within a sight of Lahore. Both sides claimed victory but India had most to celebrate.
After a thousand years, India won a strategic victory in 1971, dismembering Pakistan and creating a new nation, Bangladesh. It was a famous victory achieved through people's power.
The Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948, or the First Kashmir War, was a war fought between India and Pakistan over the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir from 1947 to 1948. It was the first of four Indo-Pakistani wars between the two newly independent nations.
Both India and Pakistan say they won the 1965 war they fought against each other. The truth of the matter is, however, both sides actually lost the war, writes Shivam Vij. India will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its 1965 war with Pakistan from August 28 to September 22.
According to Global Firepower, the Pakistan Armed Forces are ranked as the 7th most powerful military in the world.
The two sides have played a total of 203 times. Pakistan has won 88 matches compared to India's 72 victories. In Test matches and ODIs, Pakistan has won more matches than India, although India has won eight of the twelve T20 International between the two sides.
The United States established diplomatic relations with Pakistan following the country's independence in 1947. We work closely with Pakistan on a wide array of issues ranging from energy, trade and investment, health, clean energy and combating the climate crisis, to Afghanistan stabilization and counterterrorism.
On 16 December 1971, Pakistan ultimately called for unilateral ceasefire and surrendered its entire four-tier military to the Indian Army– hence ending the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971. On the ground, Pakistan suffered the most, with 8,000 killed and 25,000 wounded, while India only had 3,000 dead and 12,000 wounded.
Pakistan maintains a tense relationship with India due to the Kashmir conflict, close ties with the People's Republic of China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Gulf Arab states, fluctuating relationship with the United States of America due to overlapping interests during the Cold War and War on Terror.
The conflict started after the partition of India in 1947 as both India and Pakistan claimed the entirety of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. It is a dispute over the region that escalated into three wars between India and Pakistan and several other armed skirmishes.
Current status and political divisions. India has control of about half the area of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, which comprises Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, while Pakistan controls a third of the region, divided into two provinces, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.
British civil servant Sir Cyril Radcliffe drew up the borders between India and Pakistan, in 1947, dividing the sub-continent very roughly into: a central and southern part, where Hindus formed the majority. two parts in the north-west and north-east that were mostly Muslim.
While Pakistan is nearly one-tenth of India's size in terms of its economy and its GDP is around USD 350 billion only.
China has the second-largest airforce globally, whereas IAF ranks fourth globally. The PLAAF's massive fighter aircraft and modern air defence systems challenge IAF's fleet size. PLAAF has over 2,000 battle aircraft, more than two times the IAF's 900 combat aircraft.
United States. The United States of America is a North American nation that is the world's most dominant economic and military power.
Pakistan is a major non-NATO ally as part of the War on Terrorism, and a leading recipient of U.S. aid. Between 2002 and 2013, Pakistan received $26 billion in economic and military aid and sales of military equipment.
The economy of Pakistan is classified as a low income developing economy. It is the 23rd-largest in terms of GDP based on purchasing power parity (PPP). In 2021, the country had a population of 227 million people.
The Prime Minister of Pakistan (Urdu: وزیراعظم; lit: 'Wazir-e- Azam), is the executive head of government of Pakistan, constitutionally designated as the Chief Executive (CE).
The Indian army reclaimed most of the area on the Indian side that had been occupied by the infiltrators, and hostilities finally ended in July when the remaining Pakistani fighters retreated from the Indian zone. Several hundred combatants were killed on each side during the conflict.
Israel helped India during the Kargil war in 1999 when the latter could not get weapon-locating radars to detect Pakistani guns across the border that were pummelling the Indian side.
Both India and Pakistan claimed victory in the air war; Pakistan claimed to have destroyed 104 Indian aircraft and lost 19, and India claimed to have destroyed 73 Pakistani aircraft and lost 35 of its own. The air war ended in a stalemate.