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Updated 11 Nov, 2014 02:50pm

Britian honours Pakistan's World War heroes

Down a broken road winding through a corner of Pakistan's Punjab province lies a silent graveyard, the resting place of hundreds of soldiers who fought for Britain in two world wars. Nestled in the rocky hills of the salt ranges, blasted by heat in the summer, the village of Dulmial is a far cry from the freezing mud of the Flanders tranches. But the village, around 150 kilometers from Islamabad, gave 460 men to fight in the 1914-18 conflict, more than any other single village in what was then British India.By the end of World War I, nearly 1.3 million men from across the Indian subcontinent had volunteered for service, with 74,000 giving their lives in the fight against Germany and its allies. As part of commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, the British High Commission in Islamabad unveiled a plaque on Monday honoring Pakistani recipients of the Victoria Cross.

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