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Xee Hoo tells the story of ingratitude and thanklessness on the part of European nations who didn't regard the Indian soldiers who participated in the wars for the British.

By the end of the war the Indian Army, mostly Punjabis, amazingly called “volunteer army” had become the largest in history to serve a foreign set of rulers. Well over 87,550 soldiers from the sub-continent lost their lives, another 11,754 were missing in action. The official record states that 79,489 Indian personnel became prisoners of war.

But then we also forget those who decided halfway through the war to fight for the freedom of their homeland. Over 40,000 Indian PoWs captured by Japanese forces volunteered for the pro-Japanese Indian National Army (INA), which fought the Allies in Burma and north-east India. The rulers, even after Partition, consider them ‘traitors’.

Given this another story comes to mind. When we lived in Lahore’s Cavalry Ground, our landlord was a retired Punjab Regiment colonel who fought in Burma and faced his own real brother. “We both gave our best”, he told me with a wink. I first met the colonel as a member of the Lahore Gymkhana Club. His elder brother had changed sides and joined the Japanese. Much later in life they exchanged jokes about their commanders.

On the D-Day landing let me inform our readers that the very first soldiers to prepare the ground for the actual landing by the ‘Allied’ force were the Punjab Regiment’s 1st and 2nd Parachute Regiments who jumped into Normandy on the 6th of June 1944. Havildar Sain of Lahore’s Mochi Gate area, though the family belonged to Rawalpindi, was the very first to parachute out of the C-47 on D-Day. Does anyone in Pakistan know about this mystical Sain Khan who surprised the Germans behind enemy lines.

But then at Dunkirk the evacuation of British troops surrounded by the Germans we must know more about. I say this because my father was part of the last batch of journalists there. The Punjabis kept the Germans at bay as the British soldiers sailed away. He also managed to get on the last boats back, though he always felt sorry for those left behind. When he narrated this one could see in his eyes the sorrow of what decision makers inflicted on the Indian soldiers.

Team Xee Hoo ( Zeeshan Hussain )

Credits.
CEO : Shamaila Salahuddin

Producer: Rasheed Ul Hassan

Production Manager : Aleena Salahuddin

Cameraman : Qamar Ali Murad

Editor : Muhammad Kaif

Drone operator: Muhammad Ashraf

Script Writer : Zeeshan Hussain

Voice Over : Zeeshan Hussain

Host : Zeeshan Hussain
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