Raj Bhaskar Dec 3, 1971 War Case : 1 Everyone remembers the 1971 war between India and Pakistan? The war lasted from 3 December-1971 to 16 December 1971 and finally Pakistan surrendered with its 93 thousand soldiers. Yesterday marked 54 years of that war. The story is about three rogue pilots of the Indian Air Force who were captured during this war and who had an unprecedented adventure of escaping from a Pakistani jail. Exactly 48 hours after the start of the war between India and Pakistan, on the fifth of December, the squadron leader of the Indian Air Force, Dhirendra S. Jaffa Sukhoi fighter planes entered Pakistan border. His plane was flying in the sky of Lahore when suddenly a bullet was fired from Pakistan and D. S. The Jaffa entered the Sukhoi. The Sukhoi plane caught fire. d. S. Jaffa pressed the seat injection button and parachuted out of the plane. They knew that they were landing on the soil of Lahore. As soon as his parachute came down, chants of 'Allahu Akbar' began to be heard. The people gathered recognized him as an Indian Air Force soldier. All were about to attack him when Pakistani Air Force officers arrived. After interrogation, he was sent to Rawalpindi jail. Jaffa, the Jambaz squadron leader of the Indian Air Force, was now in Pakistani custody as a prisoner of war. At that time, 12 other soldiers of the Indian Army were also living as prisoners of war in that jail. Squaw. The cell number five in which leader Jaffa was locked up also contained three other Air Force officers. One of those officers was Lt. Dilip Parulkar, the second was Flight Lt. Malwinder Singh Garewal and the third was Lt. Harish Singh. Usman Hamid, who was also the Air Force Chief, was in charge of this cell in Rawalpindi. Time was passing. Air Chief Usman Hamid had become good friends with the Indian soldiers. They used to give him gifts too. d. S. He gifted a tape recorder and an atlas to the inmates of the Jaffa cell. The Indo-Pakistani war was over and India had a glorious victory, but D.S. Many soldiers like Jaffa were still in Pakistani custody. These people were waiting to be released from prison, but for some reason the exchange of prisoners was taking time. Lt. Dilip Parulkar was in a hurry to get out of jail. He arranged for two other companions to escape, but D. S. Jaffa was not ready. Then the escape planning began. He had a map. During the day when he was taken out of the cell, he used to inspect the surrounding area. There was a wall right behind the cell in which those people were confined, adjacent to that wall was the Pakistani Employment Office. He had to escape through the floor of the office. The important question is why to break the wall of the cell? Where and how to hide the waste of bricks, cement etc. after breaking the wall? At the end of much thought, his attention came to the boxes lying in the cell. The thing was that these prisoners were given big boxes of toothpaste, towels etc. Those boxes used to lie there when they were empty. All together decided to fill the hole with garbage. A boy selling cold drinks to prisoners of war would use a large awl to break the bottle caps. He slept and took it from her. It was decided that the border of Pakistan was adjacent to Afghanistan. By all means go to Afghanistan through that border and from there to Hindustan. Late at night Lieut. Dilip Parulkar, Lieut. Malvinder Singh Garewal and Lieut. Harish Singh used to carve the wall while lying down. The 18-inch thick wall had to be excavated from one bed. Months were passing. His plan was to break the jail and escape on Pakistan's Independence Day, August 14, and it was done accordingly. The bed inside the cell was kept horizontal to cover the opening. Three people sleep and one breaks the wall. Finally, on 12th August, there was a breach in the wall. That day was 13th August-1972. The next day was Pakistan's Independence Day. Everyone was ready for it. That day there was a terrible storm and rain. On such a dark night, the three rogue soldiers came out after breaking a hole in the bastion of pride of the Pakistani police. After coming out, he jumped over the big wall and reached the premises of the employment office. Before this, he had bought a kurta-pyjama and a hat with the money, which are worn by Muslims. Arriving in the premises of the employment office, he quickly changed his clothes and started walking quickly on Malroad. A short distance away, a bus conductor was shouting loudly, 'Peshawar… Peshawar… Peshawar…!' The three soldiers boarded the bus, as Afghanistan was only five miles from a village near Peshawar. The people were very happy to be free now, but the five mile journey was not easy. What happened next to those three escaped soldiers will be the sensational story next week. Gradually
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