Pakistan has successfully tested Hatf 3 Ghaznavi Missile

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I find this extremely difficult to believe.

Personally, I don't believe pakistan has anything close to 100 nukes.
Military minds don't think like us. Any claim from Pakistani side during peace time should be considered as true and capabilities must be matched if not out matched.

I must tell you, when wars will be declared by India or thrust upon us by China or Pakistan then the reasons, motives, impulses will be far more bigger to go ahead and teach them a lesson; considering their capabilities will be a secondary thought, not prime.
 

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To understand the dynamics of Pakistani missile arsenal you have to undersand Pakistani nuclear doctrine first.
Our nuclear doctrine is a defensive one as we don't have the ambition to become a global power. Our main threat in Asia comes from India and Israel so we have concentrated in covering these countries first and diverted all our resources into developping Shaheen II/III and other missiles. A 1.000km version of Babur is ready to be tested.

There are two reasons why we are not in a hurry to extend range to our BM Arsenal:
Main reason is lack of political will or military need to have ICBM's. We want to be regional power, not a super power.
Second to that is the fact that Pakistani nuclear warheads were based on HEU and we have only recently started building Pu based warheads which are considerably lighter than the HEU ones and have higher yield.

So the time was not right to have long range ICBM nor did we have funds or the capability to lift a heavy HEU warhead and fly it more than 2.500km.
It has only become possible now.
Who dubbed your Nuclear arsenal as Islamic Bomb? Do you remember?

You never wanted to be a global power per se but had every intention of becoming the leader and technical powerhouse of Ummah and OIC. The leader of all Islamic states in the world.

So, a regional player with global reach.

I would here not go into matters that are not based on hard facts but, need less to mention that you played on both sides, in the context of Saudi and Iran and nuclear umbrella.

So, if Israel was such a threat to you, and you send volunteers to fight against it in 1948 war, what was your country's stand in 1956 conflict between Egypt and Israel over Suez canal?

So, your narrative like every country should be based on the threat perception to your own country.

Which is true only in the case of India.

But, for Israel, it was a grand standing, which was aimed at becoming the leader of OIC and Muslim block ( For lack of better word).

And Israel response towards you is the mirror of that grand standing.
 
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I am still not sure how Pakistan targets Israel. Apart from personnel and training and small arms to others (that Pakistan probably does) how can Pakistan target Israel completely. You allude to Shaheen III but there are no details provided by you on its development and latest information. Also 1,000 km babur seems to be India specific and and Iran specific.

How can Pakistan tell the Saud family that they would protect the Shias and Mecca when the weather gets too hot in the desert. And also the American threat you refer to earlier. That ultimately means a identifiable instantaneous threat to Israel from Pakistan.

Even i am reading that the Ghauri-II missile has a maximum range of 2,000 km. What i am implying is the all the missiles and military equipment in Pakistan will be explicitly below the range and the threat to Israel and that is done on purpose and out of fear. The middle east policy is perhaps reaching to the borders of Iraq and not Israel.

I thought you would describe in more detail how Israel can be hit by Pakistan. How can Pakistan attack Israel now.

Perhaps one way is that Iran is mindful of Pakistan posture and therefore regards its development of Nuclear Weapons to be such (Sunni Nuclear State and Shia Nuclear State). That makes it a threat to Israel and middle east balance and parameters and ultimately Pakistan is the reason why Iran is developing Nukes. Pakistan is threatening Israel by way of Iran. That is why the Pakistan middle-east policy will alert Israel.
Pakistani nuclear or missile programme is not as open as one would hope for it to be. One thing I can assure you off is that we are very very efficiemt when it comes to our weapons selection and investments we make into it. With avery small military budget we have been able to maintain balanace and status quo with fast growing and worlds largest arms importer, India. All because of our effictiveness.

So if my military believes that she has means to launch countrr strike on Israel if needed the. i believe it.
Often I am not at libertty to discuss sensitive stuff ot reveal info before it reaches the media. There is a lot happening in our defence labortories and this is the reason why we kerp calm with Indias huge weapon imports.
 

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Pakistani nuclear or missile programme is not as open as one would hope for it to be. One thing I can assure you off is that we are very very efficiemt when it comes to our weapons selection and investments we make into it. With avery small military budget we have been able to maintain balanace and status quo with fast growing and worlds largest arms importer, India.. All because of our effictiveness.

So if my military believes that she has means to launch countrr strike on Israel if needed the. i believe it.
Often I am not at libertty to discuss sensitive stuff ot reveal info before it reaches the media. There is a lot happening in our defence labortories and this is the reason why we kerp calm with Indias huge weapon imports.
Your BLIND faith in your military is the reason you are in such a chaos.

Your Military is quite successful in making sure you are disillusioned. :lol:
 

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Pakistani nuclear or missile programme is not as open as one would hope for it to be. One thing I can assure you off is that we are very very efficiemt when it comes to our weapons selection and investments we make into it. With avery small military budget we have been able to maintain balanace and status quo with fast growing and worlds largest arms importer, India. All because of our effictiveness.

So if my military believes that she has means to launch countrr strike on Israel if needed the. i believe it.
Often I am not at libertty to discuss sensitive stuff ot reveal info before it reaches the media. There is a lot happening in our defence labortories and this is the reason why we kerp calm with Indias huge weapon imports.
Alright fair play if you are insistent on Pakistan identifiable instantaneous threat to Israel by way of assurance and not any source and links.

You mention "military believes" perhaps you can give the essence of what your military believes on launching strike on Israel ... that would add to your earlier posts
 

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Your military "believed" in Operation Grand Slam , Operation Chengiz Khan , Kargil .... Keep dreaming , keep believing

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To talk too much about this missile test by Pakistan is not worth it.

They were per-emptying India to conduct this missile test. India plan to test shooting down enemy missile test later this month. If the test was successful then India would grab the headlines. Pakistan is trying very hard to grab the headlines with this flimsy test.

Brahmos missile can out class this Pakistani missiles by many fold. They know it but are trying hard to stay in the race.
 

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Read more into the chronicals and you will find more hateful quotes by Ben Gurion. Moshe Dayan and other jewish leaders.

And yes, Israel has always known the fact that hindus hate muslims more than jews hate arabs so therefor india and Israel should be natural allies against Pakistan.
Indians hate pure landers.
 

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nice you keep testing dud missile's that are made in china and just painted in green in pakibeggaristan to look like pakibeggaristan made it when it is not so that you can give something idiotic to cheer up uneducated people of pakibeggaristan.:rofl::laugh::lol:
 

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Haven't you ever wondered how come missiles of Pakis are always "successful" and never fails??? :lol:
japanese media proved that pakistan tests missile which fails its aim of test but the pakistani official claim it as successful
here is a reference
Pakistani Ballistic Missile Test Failed | Defense News | defensenews.com
They never fail because it is ready-made from China and they have already done all the work and testing but
sometimes it fails because when it is re-assembled in pakistan they read the instructions in chinese incorrectly
so there are some failures.

However referring to some of the previous posts, If these Pakistani missiles are going to threaten Israel
most likely USA will cut aid and what will happen to pakistan and maintenance of nukes in particular
and the country in general ? ( Most likely the Royal Saudi family will also likewise cut aid )

and would the usa forces be stationed in pakistan to help keep law and order just as they did when they
"helped" to remove Ossama ? They will help remove those who threaten Israel ?
 
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They never fail because it is ready-made from China and they have already done all the work and testing but
sometimes it fails because when it is re-assembled in pakistan they read the instructions in chinese incorrectly
so there are some failures.

However referring to some of the previous posts, If these Pakistani missiles are going to threaten Israel
most likely USA will cut aid and what will happen to pakistan and maintenance of nukes in particular
and the country in general ? ( Most likely the Royal Saudi family will also likewise cut aid )

and would the usa forces be stationed in pakistan to help keep law and order just as they did when they
"helped" to remove Ossama ?
even chinese doesn't tests some of missile
 

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Indian relation with China is peaceful onlee. You don't see Indian and Chinese soldiers killing each other on border.
Also, there are intrusions from both sides and the difference being Chinese one's are publicized by Indian Media and Indian one's are not by Chinese Media.

The situation is hugely different from say Iranian-Pakistan and Afghanistan-Pakistan border where Pakis are killed regularly in their own land by Afghanistan and American soldiers :pound:.
Yes off course peaceful they just enter your area do party for few days and you are able to do nothing in return
 

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Good Day Friends! Being a student & passionate of Historical Studies,i decided to collect & share information about Muslim heroes & world. But page is especialy Dedicated to "SheHenShah-e-Afghan, Sultan Mehmood Ghaznavi" love, (Qasim dar)
Biography
Mahmud of Ghazni (Persian: محمود غزنوی Maḥmūd-e Ghaznawī) (November 2, 971 - April 30, 1030), also known as Yāmīn al-Dawlah Maḥmūd (in full: Yāmīn al-Dawlah Abd al-Qāṣim Maḥmūd Ibn Sebük Tegīn) was the Turkic founder of the Ghaznavid Empire, which he ruled from 997 until his death. Mahmud turned the former provincial city of Ghazni (now in Afghanistan) into the wealthy capital of an extensive empire which extended from Afghanistan into most of Iran as well as Pakistan and regions of North-West India. He was also the first ruler to carry the title Sultan ("authority"), signifying the extent of his power, though preserving the ideological link to the suzerainty of the Caliph

Military campaigns

In 994, Mahmud joined his father Sebüktigin in the capture of Khorasan from the rebel Fa'iq in aid of the Samanid Emir, Nuh II. During this period the Samanid state became highly unstable, with shifting internal political tides as various factions vied for control, the chief among them being Abu'l-Qasim Simjuri, Fa'iq, Abu Ali[citation needed], the General Behtuzun as well as the neighbouring Buyids and Qarakhanids.
[edit] Consolidation of rule

Sultan Mahmud's first campaign, in which he was defeated, was against the Qarakhanid Empire who controlled the northern portion of his Empire. After his defeat he enlisted the alliance of the Seljuk Turks in southern Soghdia and Khwarazm who aided him in securing the north by diplomacy (998). In 999 'Abd al-Malik II of the Samanids engaged in hostilities with Mahmud over Khorasan after political alliances shifted under a new Samanid Emir. These forces were defeated when the Qarakhanids under Nasr Khan[citation needed] invaded them from the north. He then solicited an alliance which was cemented by his marriage to Nasr Khan's daughter.
[edit] The Multan and Hindu Shahi struggles

Mahmud's first campaign to the south was against the Ismaili Fatimid Kingdom at Multan in a bid to curry political favor and recognition with the Abbassid Caliphate engaged with the Fatimids elsewhere. Raja Jayapala of the Hindu Shahi Dynasty in modern-day Pakistan (Lahore and Kashmir) at this point attempted to gain retribution, for an earlier military defeat at the hands of Mahmud's father, who controlled Ghazni in the late 980s, that had lost him extensive territory. His son Anandapala succeeded him and continued the struggle, assembling a powerful confederacy which was defeated once more at Lahore in 1008 bringing Mahmud control of the Hindu Shahi dominions of Updhanpura.[1]

There is considerable evidence from writings of Al-Biruni, Soghidan, Uyghur and Manichean texts that the Buddhists, Hindus and Jains were accepted as People of the Book and references to Buddha as Burxan or as a prophet can be found. After the initial destruction and pillage, Buddhists, Jains and Hindus were granted protected subject status as Dhimmis. By that time, however, most of the centers of buddhist and Hindu learning were already destroyed.[2]
[edit] Ghaznavid campaigns in the Indian Subcontinent

Following the defeat of the Rajput Confederacy, after deciding to teach them all a lesson for combining against him, discovering that they were rich, and that their temples were great repositories of wealth, Mahmud then set out on regular expeditions against them, leaving the conquered kingdoms in the hands of Hindu vassals annexing only the Punjab region.[1] He also vowed to raid India every year.

Mahmud had already had relationships with the leadership in Balkh through marriage. Its local Emir Abu Nasr Mohammad, offered his services to the Sultan and his daughter to Mahmud's son, Muhammad. After Nasr's death Mahmud brought Balkh under his leadership. This alliance greatly helped him during his expeditions into Northern India.


The Indian kingdoms of Nagarkot, Thanesar, Kannauj, Gwalior, and Ujjain were all conquered and left in the hands of Hindu, Jain and Buddhist Kings as vassal states and he was pragmatic enough not to shirk making alliances and enlisting local peoples into his armies at all ranks.

The later invasions of Mahmud were specifically directed to temple towns as Indian temples were depositories of great wealth and the Economic and Ideological Centers of Gravity for the Hindus, Destroying them would destroy the will power of the Hindus attacking the Empire since Mahmud never kept a permanent prescience in the Subcontinent; Nagarkot, Thanesar, Mathura, Kanauj, Kalinjar and Somnath were all thus raided. Mahmud's armies stripped the temples of their wealth and then destroyed them at Varanasi, Ujjain, Maheshwar, Jwalamukhi, Narunkot and Dwarka. During the period of Mahmud invasion, the Sindhi Swarankar Community and other Hindus who escaped conversion fled from Sindh to escape sectarian violence, and settled in various villages in the district of Kutch, in modern-day Gujarat, India.
[edit] Love for Ayaz
Main article: Malik Ayaz

Mahmud's chaste love affair with his young slave, Malik Ayaz, became a legendary example of love and devotion, and was a celebrated symbol of the kind of relationship in which a lovestruck powerful man can become "a slave to his slave."[3] Ayaz became the paragon of the ideal beloved, and a model of purity in Sufi literature. In 1021 the Sultan raised Ayaz to kingship, awarding him the throne of Lahore. The poet Sa'adi was among those celebrating the two.[3]

A poem by Allama Iqbal also mentions this in the context of egalitarianism in Islam in the verse below:

Aa gaya ain ladai mein agar Waqt-e-Namaz,
Qiblaru hoke zameen-bos hui Qaum-e-Hejaz,
Ek hi saf mein khade ho gaye Mahmud-o-Ayaz,
Na koi Banda raha aur na koi Banda-Nawaz

(In the midst of raging battle if the time came to pray,
Hejazis turned to Mecca, kissed the earth and ceased from the fray,
Sultan and slave in single file stood side by side,
Then no servant was nor master, nothing did them divide)

[edit] Patron of the Arts and Poetry
After 30 years of hard work, the notable poet, Ferdowsi went to Ghazni and presented the Shahnameh to Mahmud. There are various stories in medieval texts describing the lack of interest shown by Mahmud of Ghazni, in Ferdowsi and his lifework. According to historians, Mahmud had promised Ferdowsi a dinar for every distich written in the Shahnameh (60,000 dinars), but later retracted and presented him with dirhams (20,000 dirhams), which were at that time much less valuable than dinars (every 100 dirhams worth 1 dinar). Ferdowsi rejected the money and, by some accounts, he gave it to a poor man who sold wine. Mahmud re-sent the amount promised to Ferdowsi's village, but when the messengers reached his house, he had died a few hours earlier. The gift was then given to his daughter, since his son had died before his father at the age of 37. Later Mahmud ordered the money be used for repairing an inn in the way from Merv to Tus, named "Robat Chaheh" so that it may remain in remembrance of the poet. This inn now lies in ruins, but still exists.
[edit] Political challenges and his death

The last four years of Mahmud's life were spent contending with the influx of Oghuz Turkic horse tribes from Central Asia, the Buyid Dynasty and rebellions by Seljuqs. Initially the Seljuks were repulsed by Mahmud and retired to Khwarezm but Togrül and اagr led them to capture Merv and Nishapur (1028-1029). Later they repeatedly raided and traded territory with his successors across Khorasan and Balkh and even sacked Ghazni in 1037. In 1039 at the Battle of Dandanaqan, they decisively defeated Mahmud's grandson, Mas'ud I resulting in Mas'ud abandoning most of his western territories to the Seljuks.

Sultan Mahmud died on April 30, 1030. His mausoleum is located at Ghazni in modern Afghanistan.[4]
[edit] Campaign timeline
[edit] As a Prince

* 994: Gained the title of Saif-ud-daula and became Governor of Khorasan under service to Nuh II of the Samanids in civil strife
* 995: The Samanid rebels Fa'iq (leader of a court faction that had defeated Alptigin's nomination for Emir) and Abu Ali expel Mahmud from Nishapur. Mahmud and Sabuktigin defeat Samanid rebels at Tus.

[edit] As a Ruler

* 997: Qarakhanid Empire
* 999: Khorasan, Balkh, Herat, Merv from the Samanids. A concurrent invasion from the North by the Qarakhanids under Elik Khan (Nasr Khan) ends Samanid rule.
* 1000: Seistan
* 1001: Gandhara: Sultan Mahmud defeats Jayapala at Peshawar and Jayapala abdicates and commits suicide.
* 1002: Seistan: Imprisoned Khuluf
* 1004: Bhatia annexed after it fails to pay its yearly tribute.
* 1005: Multan revolts under Abul Fatah Dawood who enlists the aid of Anandapala. Defeated at Peshawar and pursued to Sodra (Wazirabad). Ghur captured. Appoints Sewakpal to administer the region. Anandapala flees to Kashmir, takes refuge in the Lohara[citation needed] fort in the hills on the western border of Kashmir.
* 1005: Defends Balkh and Khorasan against Nasr I of the Qarakhanids and recaptures Nishapur from Isma'il Muntasir of the Samanids.
* 1005: Sewakpal rebels and is defeated.
* 1008: Mahmud defeats the Rajput Confederacy (Ujjain, Gwalior, Kalinjar, Kannauj, Delhi, and Ajmer) in battle between Und and Peshawar, and captures the Shahi treasury at Kangra in modern-day Himachal Pradesh.

Note: A historical narrative states in this battle, under the onslaught of the Gakhar tribe, Mahmud's army was about to retreat when Jayapala's son King Anandapala's elephant took flight and turned the tide of the battle.

* 1010: Ghur; against Mohammad ibn Sur
* 1010: Multan revolts. Abul Fatah Dawood imprisoned for life at Ghazni.
* 1011: Thanesar
* 1012: Joor-jistan: Captures Sar(Czar??)-Abu-Nasr
* 1012: Demands and receives remainder of the province of Khorasan from the Abassid Caliph. Then demands Samarkand as well but is rebuffed.
* 1013: Bulnat: Defeats Trilochanpala.
* 1015: Ghaznis expedition to Kashmir fails. Fails to take the Lohara[citation needed] fort at Lokote in the hills leading up to the valley from the west.
* 1015: Khwarezm: Marries his sister to Abul Abbas Mamun of Khwarezm who dies in the same year in a rebellion. Moves to quell the rebellion and installs a new ruler and annexes a portion.
* 1017: Kannauj, Meerut, and Muhavun on the Yamuna, Mathura and various other regions along the route. While moving through Kashmir, he levies troops from the vassal prince for his onward march. Kannauj and Meerut submit without a fight.
* 1021: Kalinjar attacks Kannauj: he marches to their aid and finds the last Shahi King Trilochanpala encamped as well. No battle, the opponents leave their baggage trains and withdraw from the field. Also fails to take the fort of Lokote again. Takes Lahore on his return. Trilochanpala flees to Ajmer. First Muslim governors appointed east of the Indus River.
* 1023: Lahore, Kalinjar, Gwalior: No battles, exacts tribute. Trilochanpala, the grandson of Jayapala is assassinated by his own troops. Official annexation of Punjab by Ghazni. Also fails to take the Lohara fort on the western border of Kashmir for the second time.
* 1024: Ajmer, Nehrwala, Kathiawar: This raid was his last major campaign. The concentration of wealth at Somnath was renowned, and consequently it became an attractive target for Mahmud, as it had previously deterred most invaders. The temple and citadel were sacked, and most of its defenders massacred.
* 1024: Somnath: Mahmud sacked the temple and is reported to have personally hammered the temple's gilded Lingam to pieces and the stone fragments were carted back to Ghazni, where they were incorporated into the steps of the city's new Jama Masjid (Friday Mosque) in 1026. He placed a new king on the throne in Gujarat as a tributary and took the old one to Ghazni as a prisoner. His return detoured across the Thar Desert to avoid the armies of Ajmer and other allies on his return.
* 1025: Marched against the Jats of the Jood mountains who harried his army on its return from the sack of Somnath.
* 1027: Rayy, Isfahan, Hamadan from the Buyid (Daylami) Dynasty.
* 1028, 1029: Merv, Nishapur lost to Seljuk Turks

Mahmud's campaigns seem to have been motivated by both religious zeal against both the Fatimids Shiites and non-Muslims; Buddhists, Jains and Hindus[weasel words]. His principal drive remained the Ismaili Shiites, Buyid Iran as well as favor and recognition of independence from the Abbassid Caliphate[weasel words]. The wealth plundered from the Rajput Confederacy and his Indian campaigns went a long way towards meeting those ends. By 1027, Mahmud had accomplished this as well as capturing most of modern-day Pakistan and North- Western India as well as obtaining formal recognition of Ghazni's sovereignty from the Abbasid Khalifah, al-Qadir Billah, as well as the title of Yameen-ud Daula.

Regional attitudes towards Mahmud's memory

In Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan, Mahmud is celebrated as a hero and a great patron of the arts, architecture, literature, and Persian revivalism as well as a vanguard of Islam and a paragon of virtue and piety who established the standard of Islam upon heathen land. His Lion and Sun is a national symbol in Iran today.[citation needed]

In India Mahmud is depicted as a Muslim villain and barbarian, bent upon the loot and plunder of the Hindu population. Over the past century in India, a great deal of material has emerged on Mahmud's barbaric campaigns, casualties, temple destruction, and slavery[citation needed].
[edit] Legacy
Under his reign the region broke away from the Samanid sphere of influence. While he acknowledged the Abbassids as Caliph as a matter of form, he was also granted the title Sultan as recognition of his independence.

By the end of his reign, the Ghaznavid Empire extended from Kurdistan in the west to Samarkand in the north-east, and from the Caspian Sea to the Yamuna. Although his raids carried his forces across the Indian Subcontinent, only the Punjab and Sindh in modern-day Pakistan, came under his permanent rule; Kashmir, the Doab, Rajasthan and Gujarat remained under the control of the local Rajput dynasties.

The booty brought back to Ghazni was enormous, and contemporary historians (e.g. Abolfazl Beyhaghi, Ferdowsi) give glowing descriptions of the magnificence of the capital, as well as of the conqueror's munificent support of literature. He transformed Ghazni, the first centre of Persian literature[3], into one of the leading cities of Central Asia, patronizing scholars, establishing colleges, laying out gardens, and building mosques, palaces, and caravansaries. He patronized Ferdowsi to write the Shahnameh; and, after his expedition across the Gangetic plains in 1017, of Al-Biruni to compose his Tarikh Al-Hind in order to understand the Indians and their beliefs.

On April 30, 1030, Sultan Mahmud died in Ghazni, at the age of 59. Sultan Mahmud had contracted malaria during his last invasion. The medical complication from malaria had caused lethal tuberculosis. During his rule, universities were founded to study various subjects such as mathematics, religion, the humanities, and medicine. Islam was the main religion of his kingdom. The dialect of Persian spoken in Afghanistan, Dari, was made the official language.

The Ghaznavid Empire was ruled by his successors for 157 years. The expanding Seljuk Turkish empire absorbed most of the Ghaznavid west. The Ghorids captured Ghazni in 1150 A.D., and Muhammad Ghori captured the last Ghaznavid stronghold at Lahore in 1187. The Ghaznavids went on to live as the Nasher Khans in their home of Ghazni until the 20th century.

Modern Pakistan has named one of its short-range ballistic missiles Ghaznavi, in honour of him.

Among Hindus of India he is given no respect and considered one of the most hated historical figures because he destroyed the Somnath Temple, one of the holiest shrines in Hinduism and among 12 Jyotirlinga. It is believed that he slaughtered 50 thousand Hindus who were there to protect the temple
 

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We have a few historical notes too.... like when Shivaji Maharaj bitchslapped aurangazeb around.... His commander Netaji Palkar, after a truce with the mughals, was lent to them to trounce the restive afghans. After subduing them successfully Netaji Palkar (something even your sikander-e-azam could not) returned to the maratha fold...

On a lighter note "sikander-e-azam"... what a sham of paki sycophancy....LOLOL

Or, when a rag-tag group of north indians sent Taimur scurrying back to his hole with all the stolen wealth.

Or Maharana Pratap..... or the the exploits of Maharaja Ranjit Singh who had your ancestors under his rule and probably the only other thing besides US firepower that scared the afghans !!!


Good Day Friends! Being a student & passionate of Historical Studies,i decided to collect & share information about Muslim heroes & world. But page is especialy Dedicated to "SheHenShah-e-Afghan, Sultan Mehmood Ghaznavi" love, (Qasim dar)
Biography
Mahmud of Ghazni (Persian: محمود غزنوی Maḥmūd-e Ghaznawī) (November 2, 971 - April 30, 1030), also known as Yāmīn al-Dawlah Maḥmūd (in full: Yāmīn al-Dawlah Abd al-Qāṣim Maḥmūd Ibn Sebük Tegīn) was the Turkic founder of the Ghaznavid Empire, which he ruled from 997 until his death. Mahmud turned the former provincial city of Ghazni (now in Afghanistan) into the wealthy capital of an extensive empire which extended from Afghanistan into most of Iran as well as Pakistan and regions of North-West India. He was also the first ruler to carry the title Sultan ("authority"), signifying the extent of his power, though preserving the ideological link to the suzerainty of the Caliph

Military campaigns

In 994, Mahmud joined his father Sebüktigin in the capture of Khorasan from the rebel Fa'iq in aid of the Samanid Emir, Nuh II. During this period the Samanid state became highly unstable, with shifting internal political tides as various factions vied for control, the chief among them being Abu'l-Qasim Simjuri, Fa'iq, Abu Ali[citation needed], the General Behtuzun as well as the neighbouring Buyids and Qarakhanids.
[edit] Consolidation of rule

Sultan Mahmud's first campaign, in which he was defeated, was against the Qarakhanid Empire who controlled the northern portion of his Empire. After his defeat he enlisted the alliance of the Seljuk Turks in southern Soghdia and Khwarazm who aided him in securing the north by diplomacy (998). In 999 'Abd al-Malik II of the Samanids engaged in hostilities with Mahmud over Khorasan after political alliances shifted under a new Samanid Emir. These forces were defeated when the Qarakhanids under Nasr Khan[citation needed] invaded them from the north. He then solicited an alliance which was cemented by his marriage to Nasr Khan's daughter.
[edit] The Multan and Hindu Shahi struggles

Mahmud's first campaign to the south was against the Ismaili Fatimid Kingdom at Multan in a bid to curry political favor and recognition with the Abbassid Caliphate engaged with the Fatimids elsewhere. Raja Jayapala of the Hindu Shahi Dynasty in modern-day Pakistan (Lahore and Kashmir) at this point attempted to gain retribution, for an earlier military defeat at the hands of Mahmud's father, who controlled Ghazni in the late 980s, that had lost him extensive territory. His son Anandapala succeeded him and continued the struggle, assembling a powerful confederacy which was defeated once more at Lahore in 1008 bringing Mahmud control of the Hindu Shahi dominions of Updhanpura.[1]

There is considerable evidence from writings of Al-Biruni, Soghidan, Uyghur and Manichean texts that the Buddhists, Hindus and Jains were accepted as People of the Book and references to Buddha as Burxan or as a prophet can be found. After the initial destruction and pillage, Buddhists, Jains and Hindus were granted protected subject status as Dhimmis. By that time, however, most of the centers of buddhist and Hindu learning were already destroyed.[2]
[edit] Ghaznavid campaigns in the Indian Subcontinent

Following the defeat of the Rajput Confederacy, after deciding to teach them all a lesson for combining against him, discovering that they were rich, and that their temples were great repositories of wealth, Mahmud then set out on regular expeditions against them, leaving the conquered kingdoms in the hands of Hindu vassals annexing only the Punjab region.[1] He also vowed to raid India every year.

Mahmud had already had relationships with the leadership in Balkh through marriage. Its local Emir Abu Nasr Mohammad, offered his services to the Sultan and his daughter to Mahmud's son, Muhammad. After Nasr's death Mahmud brought Balkh under his leadership. This alliance greatly helped him during his expeditions into Northern India.


The Indian kingdoms of Nagarkot, Thanesar, Kannauj, Gwalior, and Ujjain were all conquered and left in the hands of Hindu, Jain and Buddhist Kings as vassal states and he was pragmatic enough not to shirk making alliances and enlisting local peoples into his armies at all ranks.

The later invasions of Mahmud were specifically directed to temple towns as Indian temples were depositories of great wealth and the Economic and Ideological Centers of Gravity for the Hindus, Destroying them would destroy the will power of the Hindus attacking the Empire since Mahmud never kept a permanent prescience in the Subcontinent; Nagarkot, Thanesar, Mathura, Kanauj, Kalinjar and Somnath were all thus raided. Mahmud's armies stripped the temples of their wealth and then destroyed them at Varanasi, Ujjain, Maheshwar, Jwalamukhi, Narunkot and Dwarka. During the period of Mahmud invasion, the Sindhi Swarankar Community and other Hindus who escaped conversion fled from Sindh to escape sectarian violence, and settled in various villages in the district of Kutch, in modern-day Gujarat, India.
[edit] Love for Ayaz
Main article: Malik Ayaz

Mahmud's chaste love affair with his young slave, Malik Ayaz, became a legendary example of love and devotion, and was a celebrated symbol of the kind of relationship in which a lovestruck powerful man can become "a slave to his slave."[3] Ayaz became the paragon of the ideal beloved, and a model of purity in Sufi literature. In 1021 the Sultan raised Ayaz to kingship, awarding him the throne of Lahore. The poet Sa'adi was among those celebrating the two.[3]

A poem by Allama Iqbal also mentions this in the context of egalitarianism in Islam in the verse below:

Aa gaya ain ladai mein agar Waqt-e-Namaz,
Qiblaru hoke zameen-bos hui Qaum-e-Hejaz,
Ek hi saf mein khade ho gaye Mahmud-o-Ayaz,
Na koi Banda raha aur na koi Banda-Nawaz

(In the midst of raging battle if the time came to pray,
Hejazis turned to Mecca, kissed the earth and ceased from the fray,
Sultan and slave in single file stood side by side,
Then no servant was nor master, nothing did them divide)

[edit] Patron of the Arts and Poetry
After 30 years of hard work, the notable poet, Ferdowsi went to Ghazni and presented the Shahnameh to Mahmud. There are various stories in medieval texts describing the lack of interest shown by Mahmud of Ghazni, in Ferdowsi and his lifework. According to historians, Mahmud had promised Ferdowsi a dinar for every distich written in the Shahnameh (60,000 dinars), but later retracted and presented him with dirhams (20,000 dirhams), which were at that time much less valuable than dinars (every 100 dirhams worth 1 dinar). Ferdowsi rejected the money and, by some accounts, he gave it to a poor man who sold wine. Mahmud re-sent the amount promised to Ferdowsi's village, but when the messengers reached his house, he had died a few hours earlier. The gift was then given to his daughter, since his son had died before his father at the age of 37. Later Mahmud ordered the money be used for repairing an inn in the way from Merv to Tus, named "Robat Chaheh" so that it may remain in remembrance of the poet. This inn now lies in ruins, but still exists.
[edit] Political challenges and his death

The last four years of Mahmud's life were spent contending with the influx of Oghuz Turkic horse tribes from Central Asia, the Buyid Dynasty and rebellions by Seljuqs. Initially the Seljuks were repulsed by Mahmud and retired to Khwarezm but Togrül and اagr led them to capture Merv and Nishapur (1028-1029). Later they repeatedly raided and traded territory with his successors across Khorasan and Balkh and even sacked Ghazni in 1037. In 1039 at the Battle of Dandanaqan, they decisively defeated Mahmud's grandson, Mas'ud I resulting in Mas'ud abandoning most of his western territories to the Seljuks.

Sultan Mahmud died on April 30, 1030. His mausoleum is located at Ghazni in modern Afghanistan.[4]
[edit] Campaign timeline
[edit] As a Prince

* 994: Gained the title of Saif-ud-daula and became Governor of Khorasan under service to Nuh II of the Samanids in civil strife
* 995: The Samanid rebels Fa'iq (leader of a court faction that had defeated Alptigin's nomination for Emir) and Abu Ali expel Mahmud from Nishapur. Mahmud and Sabuktigin defeat Samanid rebels at Tus.

[edit] As a Ruler

* 997: Qarakhanid Empire
* 999: Khorasan, Balkh, Herat, Merv from the Samanids. A concurrent invasion from the North by the Qarakhanids under Elik Khan (Nasr Khan) ends Samanid rule.
* 1000: Seistan
* 1001: Gandhara: Sultan Mahmud defeats Jayapala at Peshawar and Jayapala abdicates and commits suicide.
* 1002: Seistan: Imprisoned Khuluf
* 1004: Bhatia annexed after it fails to pay its yearly tribute.
* 1005: Multan revolts under Abul Fatah Dawood who enlists the aid of Anandapala. Defeated at Peshawar and pursued to Sodra (Wazirabad). Ghur captured. Appoints Sewakpal to administer the region. Anandapala flees to Kashmir, takes refuge in the Lohara[citation needed] fort in the hills on the western border of Kashmir.
* 1005: Defends Balkh and Khorasan against Nasr I of the Qarakhanids and recaptures Nishapur from Isma'il Muntasir of the Samanids.
* 1005: Sewakpal rebels and is defeated.
* 1008: Mahmud defeats the Rajput Confederacy (Ujjain, Gwalior, Kalinjar, Kannauj, Delhi, and Ajmer) in battle between Und and Peshawar, and captures the Shahi treasury at Kangra in modern-day Himachal Pradesh.

Note: A historical narrative states in this battle, under the onslaught of the Gakhar tribe, Mahmud's army was about to retreat when Jayapala's son King Anandapala's elephant took flight and turned the tide of the battle.

* 1010: Ghur; against Mohammad ibn Sur
* 1010: Multan revolts. Abul Fatah Dawood imprisoned for life at Ghazni.
* 1011: Thanesar
* 1012: Joor-jistan: Captures Sar(Czar??)-Abu-Nasr
* 1012: Demands and receives remainder of the province of Khorasan from the Abassid Caliph. Then demands Samarkand as well but is rebuffed.
* 1013: Bulnat: Defeats Trilochanpala.
* 1015: Ghaznis expedition to Kashmir fails. Fails to take the Lohara[citation needed] fort at Lokote in the hills leading up to the valley from the west.
* 1015: Khwarezm: Marries his sister to Abul Abbas Mamun of Khwarezm who dies in the same year in a rebellion. Moves to quell the rebellion and installs a new ruler and annexes a portion.
* 1017: Kannauj, Meerut, and Muhavun on the Yamuna, Mathura and various other regions along the route. While moving through Kashmir, he levies troops from the vassal prince for his onward march. Kannauj and Meerut submit without a fight.
* 1021: Kalinjar attacks Kannauj: he marches to their aid and finds the last Shahi King Trilochanpala encamped as well. No battle, the opponents leave their baggage trains and withdraw from the field. Also fails to take the fort of Lokote again. Takes Lahore on his return. Trilochanpala flees to Ajmer. First Muslim governors appointed east of the Indus River.
* 1023: Lahore, Kalinjar, Gwalior: No battles, exacts tribute. Trilochanpala, the grandson of Jayapala is assassinated by his own troops. Official annexation of Punjab by Ghazni. Also fails to take the Lohara fort on the western border of Kashmir for the second time.
* 1024: Ajmer, Nehrwala, Kathiawar: This raid was his last major campaign. The concentration of wealth at Somnath was renowned, and consequently it became an attractive target for Mahmud, as it had previously deterred most invaders. The temple and citadel were sacked, and most of its defenders massacred.
* 1024: Somnath: Mahmud sacked the temple and is reported to have personally hammered the temple's gilded Lingam to pieces and the stone fragments were carted back to Ghazni, where they were incorporated into the steps of the city's new Jama Masjid (Friday Mosque) in 1026. He placed a new king on the throne in Gujarat as a tributary and took the old one to Ghazni as a prisoner. His return detoured across the Thar Desert to avoid the armies of Ajmer and other allies on his return.
* 1025: Marched against the Jats of the Jood mountains who harried his army on its return from the sack of Somnath.
* 1027: Rayy, Isfahan, Hamadan from the Buyid (Daylami) Dynasty.
* 1028, 1029: Merv, Nishapur lost to Seljuk Turks

Mahmud's campaigns seem to have been motivated by both religious zeal against both the Fatimids Shiites and non-Muslims; Buddhists, Jains and Hindus[weasel words]. His principal drive remained the Ismaili Shiites, Buyid Iran as well as favor and recognition of independence from the Abbassid Caliphate[weasel words]. The wealth plundered from the Rajput Confederacy and his Indian campaigns went a long way towards meeting those ends. By 1027, Mahmud had accomplished this as well as capturing most of modern-day Pakistan and North- Western India as well as obtaining formal recognition of Ghazni's sovereignty from the Abbasid Khalifah, al-Qadir Billah, as well as the title of Yameen-ud Daula.

Regional attitudes towards Mahmud's memory

In Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan, Mahmud is celebrated as a hero and a great patron of the arts, architecture, literature, and Persian revivalism as well as a vanguard of Islam and a paragon of virtue and piety who established the standard of Islam upon heathen land. His Lion and Sun is a national symbol in Iran today.[citation needed]

In India Mahmud is depicted as a Muslim villain and barbarian, bent upon the loot and plunder of the Hindu population. Over the past century in India, a great deal of material has emerged on Mahmud's barbaric campaigns, casualties, temple destruction, and slavery[citation needed].
[edit] Legacy
Under his reign the region broke away from the Samanid sphere of influence. While he acknowledged the Abbassids as Caliph as a matter of form, he was also granted the title Sultan as recognition of his independence.

By the end of his reign, the Ghaznavid Empire extended from Kurdistan in the west to Samarkand in the north-east, and from the Caspian Sea to the Yamuna. Although his raids carried his forces across the Indian Subcontinent, only the Punjab and Sindh in modern-day Pakistan, came under his permanent rule; Kashmir, the Doab, Rajasthan and Gujarat remained under the control of the local Rajput dynasties.

The booty brought back to Ghazni was enormous, and contemporary historians (e.g. Abolfazl Beyhaghi, Ferdowsi) give glowing descriptions of the magnificence of the capital, as well as of the conqueror's munificent support of literature. He transformed Ghazni, the first centre of Persian literature[3], into one of the leading cities of Central Asia, patronizing scholars, establishing colleges, laying out gardens, and building mosques, palaces, and caravansaries. He patronized Ferdowsi to write the Shahnameh; and, after his expedition across the Gangetic plains in 1017, of Al-Biruni to compose his Tarikh Al-Hind in order to understand the Indians and their beliefs.

On April 30, 1030, Sultan Mahmud died in Ghazni, at the age of 59. Sultan Mahmud had contracted malaria during his last invasion. The medical complication from malaria had caused lethal tuberculosis. During his rule, universities were founded to study various subjects such as mathematics, religion, the humanities, and medicine. Islam was the main religion of his kingdom. The dialect of Persian spoken in Afghanistan, Dari, was made the official language.

The Ghaznavid Empire was ruled by his successors for 157 years. The expanding Seljuk Turkish empire absorbed most of the Ghaznavid west. The Ghorids captured Ghazni in 1150 A.D., and Muhammad Ghori captured the last Ghaznavid stronghold at Lahore in 1187. The Ghaznavids went on to live as the Nasher Khans in their home of Ghazni until the 20th century.

Modern Pakistan has named one of its short-range ballistic missiles Ghaznavi, in honour of him.

Among Hindus of India he is given no respect and considered one of the most hated historical figures because he destroyed the Somnath Temple, one of the holiest shrines in Hinduism and among 12 Jyotirlinga. It is believed that he slaughtered 50 thousand Hindus who were there to protect the temple
 

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It has never ceased to amaze me what can be the worst affect of an invading force on the mentality of a civilized society-- Pakistan before Ghaznavi was a center of arts and sciences-- great universities and school of arts existed and many brilliant minds flourished- however today- Its nothing a but a breed of people like you who were born after- Hindu and Buddhist women were made slaves by these invaders after their men were killed- they were raped until your fore-fathers were born and submitted to their masters willingly- such is the affect of trauma that you continue to honor those invaders- even 1000 years after their death- Many parts of the world had their share of invading forces- for example the Chinese under mongols/Japanese who were even worse than the likes of Ghaznavi- but they overcame the invasion- unlike the people of Pakistan- no wonder you surrendered in such huge numbers even in a 16 day war- in 1971-
 

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We are working on five different designs including a supersonic missile with a range of 700km.
We will in due time have a mature BM aresenal with range upto 12.500km but our main priority is to cover all of South Asia and Israel, a capability we have already achieved.
We should now work on difersifying the range and speed of these missiles and develop an ABM system.
You should better try to obtain this-



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Shaheen design dates back to late nineties, long before Israel was shielded.
Get your facts right.

Despite having the some of the best air defence sustems in the world, primitive Iraqi Scud rockets penetrated the missile defence and landed on Israeli cities durimg the Gulf War.
Which Israeli Cities ?
 

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In January and February of 1991, 38 Iraqi Scud missiles landed in Israel (four others fell short and landed in the West Bank). The bombardment started on January 18, when Tel Aviv and Haifa were hit by 8 Scuds, and continued for several weeks. Six missiles fell in the Negev, apparently aimed at the nuclear reactor in Dimona. All of the Scuds had conventional warheads, although Saddam had previously used Scuds with chemical warheads in his war with Iran. The Scuds were of Soviet design.
 

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