Pakistan

5 wars

Wars fought on the land of today's Pakistan or by its peoples.

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Wars

First Anglo-Sikh War Second Anglo-Sikh War Second Opium War Indian Rebellion of 1857 Soviet–Afghan War

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First Anglo-Sikh War
East India Company forces and British Army regiments
East India Company forces, British Army regiments, and Sepoy regiments of the Company's Bengal army
against
The Sikh Empire and Ladwa
The Sikh Empire and its army, the Khalsa and Ladwa, under Raja Ajit Singh
By the Treaty of Lahore (9 March 1846) the Sikh state gave up the Jullundur Doab and other lands and paid an indemnity; the Company placed a Resident and a garrison at Lahore.
War
Second Anglo-Sikh War
East India Company forces, British Army regiments and their allies
East India Company forces, British Army regiments, Sepoy regiments of the Company's Bengal army, Pashtun irregulars raised by Herbert Edwardes, and Bahawalpur, under its Nawab
against
The Sikh Empire's army (the Khalsa) and Afghan allies
Mulraj's forces at Multan, a province of the Sikh Empire, Khalsa regiments of the Sikh Empire under Sher Singh and Chattar Singh Attariwalla, and Afghan horsemen sent by Dost Mohammad Khan of Kabul
The Sikh army surrendered in March 1849, and on 29 March the East India Company annexed the Punjab and deposed Maharaja Duleep Singh.
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Second Opium War
Britain and France
United Kingdom (Royal Navy and British Army), Indian regiments under British command, Second French Empire, and United States (supporting)
against
Qing China
Qing dynasty
In the Convention of Peking (October 1860) the Qing confirmed the Treaties of Tianjin, opened Tianjin to trade, ceded southern Kowloon to Britain and raised the indemnity to 8 million taels each for Britain and France.
At the same time here: Indian Rebellion of 1857
War
Indian Rebellion of 1857
Rebel sepoys, the Mughal court at Delhi and allied rulers
Mutinous regiments of the Company's Bengal Army, The Mughal court at Delhi, under Bahadur Shah Zafar, Nana Sahib's forces at Cawnpore, Awadh rebels under Begum Hazrat Mahal, Jhansi, under Rani Lakshmibai, and Jagdishpur, under Kunwar Singh
against
East India Company forces, the British Army and their allies
East India Company forces, British Army regiments sent by the Crown, Indian soldiers who fought for the Company: sepoy regiments that stayed with it, Sikh, Punjabi Muslim and Pashtun units raised in the Punjab, and Gurkha battalions, Sikh princely states of Patiala, Nabha and Kapurthala, Gwalior, under Maharaja Jayajirao Scindia (supporting), Rampur, under Nawab Yusuf Ali Khan, Jodhpur, under Maharaja Takht Singh, and Kingdom of Nepal, under Jung Bahadur Rana
Company and allied forces took the last rebel centres by mid-1858; the British Crown took over the government of India from the East India Company, and the last Mughal emperor was exiled to Rangoon.
At the same time here: Second Opium War
War
Soviet–Afghan War
Soviet Union and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
Soviet Union and Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (PDPA government)
against
Afghan mujahideen and their backers
Afghan mujahideen, Pakistan (supporting), United States (supporting), Saudi Arabia (supporting), China (supporting), United Kingdom (supporting), Iran (supporting), and Egypt (supporting)
The Soviet Union withdrew all its troops by 15 February 1989 without defeating the mujahideen; the war between the Afghan government and the mujahideen went on.