“Then I guess Pakistan would have won (the 1971 war).”

—  Sam Manekshaw

the 1971 war His quip when asked, if he had opted for Pakistan at the time of the partition in 1947.

Source: A soldier's general, 28 June 2008, 2 December 2013, Mumbai Mirror http://www.mumbaimirror.com/news/india/A-soldiers-general/articleshow/15824703.cms,

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