It's not too old. After reading this, one must stand here in awe. During the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965, the Amritsar and Khemkaran sectors were suddenly attacked by several divisions of the Pakistan Army. The Western Command at that time was headed by Lieutenant General Harbakhsh Singh.
In view of this sudden onslaught, Army Chief Shri Chaudhary ordered from Delhi to withdraw his troops and bring them to Jalandhar on the river Beas. Otherwise, not only Amritsar but also the area up to Ambala would be easily conquered by the Pakistan Army .
On the one hand, the principle of military training was obedience to the orders of the seniors and on the other hand, the love of the Gurus for the land of Amritsar. Lieutenant General Harbakhsh Singh C flatly refused to back down saying that Nankana and Kartarpur Sahib had been lost to us seventeen years ago but now the land of Darbar Sahib and Sri Amritsar should not be lost at any cost. Harbakhsh Singh then commanded the army at his level and fought the war with such a strategy that the Pakistan army had to retreat.
After the war, many tried to entrap the general in a vicious circle, but the then Prime Minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri, who was convinced of the bravery of the Sikhs, stood firm in his favor.
Experts say that the six-and-a-half-foot-tall army general was so eloquent that in a post-war press conference, Pakistani President General Ayub Khan himself admitted that the Pakistan Army would never have lost if it had not been for the courageous General Harbakhsh Singh and his leadership. There would be no fearless army fighting in India.
Shah Mohammad rightly writes that "today the government should get the price which the Khalsa killed, Shah Mohammad won the armies without a government and lost in the end"
This general was born in 1913 in the same village of Badrukha in Sangrur district which Shere Punjab is considered to be the Nanaka village of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.