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Fazilka, December 16
An NGO, Shaheedon Ki Samadhi Committee, in association with the Army and the civil administration, organised a programme to honour war veterans and kin of martyrs at the Asafwala War Memorial on the eve of Vijay Diwas.
The memorial was raised for 206 jawans and JCOs who attained martyrdom during the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war in Fazilka sector. As many as 362 jawans were also injured in one of the fiercest battles fought in the history of India in this sector in 1971.
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