{"id":47600,"date":"2025-05-15T12:31:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T07:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=47600"},"modified":"2025-05-29T13:30:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:00:34","slug":"shakargarh-bulge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/shakargarh-bulge\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakargarh Bulge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Shakargarh Bulge Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Shakargarh Bulge was one of the places where a major build-up of tanks and armoured vehicles by the Pakistan army was spotted recently.<\/p>\n<h2>About Shakargarh Bulge<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Shakargarh Bulge is an\u00a0<strong>important area in Pakistani territory<\/strong>\u00a0that\u00a0<strong>sticks out into India,bordered by the Ravi and Chenab rivers.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Its geography consists of\u00a0<strong>flat terrain<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>proximity to key road and rail networks<\/strong>, making it a<strong>\u00a0strategic corrido<\/strong>r for both sides.<\/li>\n<li>The area&#8217;s flat terrain and its\u00a0<strong>proximity to Indian cities\u00a0<\/strong>such as\u00a0<strong>Amritsar, Pathankot, Batala, and Gurdaspur,<\/strong>\u00a0as well as\u00a0<strong>road links to Jammu,<\/strong>\u00a0makes it a high-priority area for the Indian Army.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This area was the\u00a0<strong>site of the notable Battle of Basantar during<\/strong>\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>1971 Indo-Pakistani War.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was a 12-day engagement that shaped the outcome of the western front in the 1971 war.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Shakargarh Bulge FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0The Shakargarh Bulge is located in which country?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Pakistan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0The Shakargarh Bulge is strategically significant due to its proximity to which Indian cities?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Amritsar, Pathankot, Batala, and Gurdaspur<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong>\u00a0Which two rivers border the Shakargarh Bulge?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Ravi and Chenab<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/post-pahalgam-terror-attack-pakistan-amassed-troops-at-shakargarh-bulge-operation-sindoor\/articleshow\/121121519.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shakargarh Bulge is a strategic Pakistani territory jutting into India, located between the Ravi and Chenab rivers, with military significance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":47607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,456,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-47600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-shakargarh-bulge","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}