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| |conflict=Operation Cactus-Lilly
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| |partof=the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]]
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| |campaign= East Pakistan Campaign.
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| |date=3-16 December 1971
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| |place= [[East Pakistan]]
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| |result= Indian Victory
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| |combatant1={{flagcountry|India}}
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| *[[Indian Air Force|IAF]]
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| |combatant2={{flagcountry|Pakistan}}
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| *[[Pakistan Air Force|PAF]]
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| {{Campaignbox Indo-Pakistani War of 1971}}
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| {{Campaignbox Indo-Pakistani Wars}}
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| '''Operation Cactus-Lilly''' by India, was a [[military operation]] executed between 3–16 December 1971, by the [[Indian Air Force]] (IAF) in the East Pakistan (current [[Bangladesh]]).<ref name="Capt2009">{{cite book|author=Ranbir Singh Gp Capt|title=Major Defence Operations Since 1947|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kzo9wyl0AK0C&pg=PT106|access-date=29 July 2012|date=1 January 2009|publisher=Prabhat Prakashan|isbn=978-81-88322-67-1|pages=106–}}</ref><ref name=deccanherald_cactus>{{cite news|title=When the Cactus Lilly bloomed...|url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/212274/when-cactus-lilly-bloomed.html|access-date=28 July 2012|newspaper=[[Deccan Herald]]|quote=Operation Cactus Lilly is the name of Indian Air Attack against Pakistan at Western front}}</ref><ref name="Ramachandran2008">{{cite book|author=D. P. Ramachandran|title=Empire'S First Soldiers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Q7EiZmcMPMC&pg=PA309|access-date=29 July 2012|date=1 September 2008|publisher=Lancer Publishers|isbn=978-0-9796174-7-8|pages=309–}}</ref>
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| ==Popular culture==
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| [[Hindustan Ki Kasam]] a [[Hindi]] [[war movie]] directed by [[Chetan Anand (director)|Chetan Anand]] and released in 1973, was based on the incidents of ''Operation Cactus Lilly''.<ref name=TOI_top10_films>{{cite news|title=Top 10 films on Indo-Pak conflict|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/top-lists/top-10-films-on-indo-pak-conflict/videols/7824538.cms|access-date=28 July 2012|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=30 Mar 2011}}</ref>
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| == See also ==
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| * [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]]
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| * [[Military history of India]]
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| ==References==
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| {{Reflist}}
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| {{Bangladesh Liberation War}}
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| {{1971 Indo-Pak War}}
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| {{Military of India}}
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| {{Military of Pakistan}}
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| {{coord missing|Bangladesh}}
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| [[Category:Bangladesh Liberation War]]
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| [[Category:Battles of Indo-Pakistani wars]]
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| [[Category:History of the Indian Air Force]]
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| [[Category:Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]]
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| [[Category:Battles of the Bangladesh Liberation War]]
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| [[Category:1971 in Bangladesh]]
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| [[Category:December 1971 events in Asia]]
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