'Pakistan lost terribly in the 1965 war with India'

Karachi, Sep 5: Pakistan "lost terribly in the 1965 war" with India, a Pakistani historian has admitted. Historian and political economist Akbar S. Zaidi dispelled "the victory myth', saying that there can be no bigger a lie as Pakistan had lost terribly, Dawn reported on Saturday. Zaidi said that people are unaware of this fact because the history taught in Pakistan is from an ideological viewpoint. Delivering a lecture titled 'Questioning Pakistan's history', he said: "Students are not taught the history of the people of Pakistan rather it is focused on the making of Pakistan." Zaidi, who teaches history at the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, was speaking at the event organised by the Faculty of Social Sciences, Karachi University.