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Kulbhushan Yadhav (Indian Navy Officer Aressted by Pakistan)

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  Kulbhushan Yadhav   (Indian Navy Officer   Aressted by Pakistan)                                  Kulbhushan Jadhav is an Indian national who is on the death row in Pakistan. He is accused of carrying out espionage and sabotage activities against Pakistan at the behest of India's intelligence agency. India has denied the allegations. Pakistan claims the former Indian Navy officer was arrested on March 3, 2016 in Balochistan. The Indian side, however, maintains that he was kidnapped from Iran, where he was running a business in the port city of Chabahar after a “premature retirement” from the Navy .        Kulbhushan Yadav was born on 16 April 1970 and he is a retired Indian national who had served Indian navy between 1987 to 2001. Kulbhushan is in the custody of Pakistan since March 3, 2016. Pakistan claims that jadhav was spreading terrorism in the Balochistan province of Pakistan and spying for India's intelligence ag

Dara Shikoh - The unlucky one

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                    Dara Shikoh -The unlucky one                                 Dara Shikoh     Dara Shikoh also known as  Dara Shukoh , (20 March 1615 – 30 August 1659)  was the eldest son and  heir-apparent  of the Mughal emperor  Shah Jahan . Muhammad Dara Shukoh was born on 20 March 1615 in Ajmer, Rajasthan. He was the first son and third child of Prince Shahab-ud-din Muhammad Khurram and his second wife, Mumtaz Mahal . The prince was named by his father. ‘Dara’ means owner of wealth or star in Persian while the second part of the prince’s name is commonly spelled in two ways: Shikoh (terror) or Shukoh (majesty or grandeur) .        Dara Shikoh had thirteen siblings of whom six survived to adulthood:  Jahanara Begum ,  Shah Shuja ,  Roshanara Begum ,  Aurangzeb ,  Murad Bakhsh , and  Gauhara Begum . He shared a close relationship with his older sister, Jahanara. As part of his formal education, Dara studied the  Quran , history, Persian poetry and calligraphy .  He was a