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TIL During the war with Pakistan in 1971, the Indian Air Force was commanded by a Muslim; the Army Commander was a Parsi (Zoroastrian), the General Officer of the Army in Bangladesh was a Sikh, and the General flown in to negotiate the surrender of the Pakistani forces in East Bengal was Jewish.

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