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War pigs are pigs reported to have been used in ancient warfare as military animals. In combat, they were mostly employed as a countermeasure against war elephants . Historical accounts of incendiary pigs or flaming pigs were recorded by the Greek military writer Polyaenus [ 1 ] and by Aelian . [ 2 ]
Aag Ka Darya (Urdu: آگ کا دریا; River of Fire) is a landmark historical Urdu-language novel written by Qurratulain Hyder providing context to the partition of the Indian subcontinent into two nation-states. It has been described as "one of the Indian Subcontinent's best known novels". [1]
But - and I don't mean to cause offense - given that the original war pig page was drawn mostly from a video game(!!!), I have to wonder if these revisions are being held to the same rigorous non-standards of the original entry. Again, not meaning to cause offense, but it does seem odd. 67.181.14.236 01:35, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
The Urdu Dictionary Board (Urdu: اردو لغت بورڈ, romanized: Urdu Lughat Board) is an academic and literary institution of Pakistan, administered by National History and Literary Heritage Division of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Its objective is to edit and publish a comprehensive dictionary of the Urdu language.
"Toba Tek Singh" (Urdu: ٹوبہ ٹیک سنگھ ALA-LC: Ṭobah Țek Siṉgh IPA: [ʈoːbəh ʈeːk sɪŋɡʱ]) is a short story written by Saadat Hasan Manto and published in 1955. It follows inmates in a Lahore asylum, some of whom are to be transferred to India following the 1947 Partition. According to a personal essay hosted at Columbia ...
Major Tufail Mohammad (Urdu: طفیل محمد ; b. 22 June 1914 – 7 August 1958: 26 [3]), NH, was a Pakistani military officer and the third recipient of Pakistan's highest military award, the Nishan-e-Haider (Eng. Trans.: Emblem of the Lion) for his actions of valor during the 1958 East Pakistan-India border clashes.
Qamar Ajnalvi (قمر اجنالوی), born Abdus Sattar (July 1919 – 30 May 1993), was a Pakistani novelist who wrote in the Urdu language. [1] [2] He was born in Ajnala, Amritsar district, British India. He was the only son of his father, Din Muhammad. He moved to Lahore in 1940. He wrote his first historical novel, Shaheed Pujaran, in 1938 ...
In Urdu and other regional languages, a pig is referred to as a suwar or khinzeer. [4] Due to pork being outlawed, foreign airlines which fly to Pakistan, such as British Airways , follow these requirements by excluding pork-containing items from their meals.