Operation Chengiz Khan was the code name assigned to the preemptive strikes carried out by the Pakistan Air Force on the forward airbases and radar installations of the Indian Air Force (IAF) on the evening of 3 December 1971, and marked the formal initiation of hostilities of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. It was named after the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan.
Operation Chengiz Khan was the code name assigned to the preemptive strikes carried out by the Pakistan Air Force on the forward airbases and radar installations of the Indian Air Force (IAF) on the evening of 3 December 1971, and marked the formal initiation of hostilities of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. It was named after the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan.
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