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This year's US Open has witnessed a truly great performance by the Pride of Pakistan Aisaam-ul-Haq Qureshi who is the first ever Pakistani to play the Final of Mixed Doubles.  He and his partner Kveta Peschke defeated Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Mark Knowles by 7-6 7-6.   Mixed Doubles - Semifinals    Kveta Peschke (CZE) /    Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) def.    Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER) /    Mark Knowles (BAH) Qureshi has also moved to the Semi Finals of Men's Doubles with his partner Indian Rohan Bhopanna and are expected to perform his best like Mixed Doubles.

Congratulation Pakistan The mixed pair of Kveta Peschke and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi has moved to Semi Finals of the US Open 2010 by defeating Gisela Dulko and Pablo Cuevas. The final score was : 3-6 6-2 1-0(4)   Mixed Doubles - Quarterfinals    Kveta Peschke (CZE) /    Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) def.    Gisela Dulko (ARG) /    Pablo Cuevas (URU) Reaching Semi Finals is a great achievement for Qureshi. Now the whole country looks forward to seeing him in the finals. He would be playing quarterfinal of Men's Doubles with his Indian partner Rohan Bhopanna against Wesley Moodie and Dick Norman tomorrow.

Ceasefire The United States and the  Soviet Union  used significant diplomatic tools to prevent any further escalation in the conflict between the two South Asian nations. The Soviet Union, led by Premier  Alexei Kosygin , hosted ceasefire negotiations in  Tashkent  (now in  Uzbekistan ), where Indian Prime Minister  Lal Bahadur Shastri  and Pakistani President Ayub Khan signed the  Tashkent Agreement , agreeing to withdraw to pre-August lines no later than February 25, 1966. With declining stockpiles of ammunition, Pakistani leaders feared the war tilting in India's favor. Therefore, they quickly accepted the ceasefire in Tashkent. [ 66 ]  Despite strong opposition from Indian military leaders, India budged to growing international diplomatic pressure and accepted the ceasefire. [ 66 ]  On September 22, the  United Nations Security Council  unanimously passed a resolution that called for an unconditional ceasefire from bo...

Naval hostilities The navies of India and Pakistan did not play a prominent role in the war of 1965, although Pakistani accounts dispute this. [ 35 ]  On September 7, a  flotilla  of the  Pakistani Navy  carried out a small scale bombardment of the Indian coastal town and radar station of  Dwarka , which was 200 miles (300 km) south of the Pakistani port of  Karachi . Codenamed  Operation Dwarka , it did not fulfill its primary objective of disabling the radar station and there was no immediate retaliatory response from India. Later, some of the Indian fleet sailed from Bombay to Dwarka to patrol the area and deter further bombardment. Foreign authors have noted that the "insignificant bombardment" [ 36 ]  of the town was a "limited engagement, with no strategic value." [ 35 ] According to some Pakistani sources, one submarine,  PNS Ghazi , kept the  Indian Navy 's aircraft carrier  INS Vikrant  besieged in  Bomb...

Tank battles The 1965 war witnessed some of the largest tank battles since  World War II . At the beginning of the war, the Pakistani Army had both a numerical advantage in tanks, as well as better equipment overall. [28]  Pakistani armour was largely American-made; it consisted mainly of  Patton M-47  and M-48  tanks, but also included many  M4 Sherman  tanks, some  M24 Chaffee  light tanks and  M36 Jackson   tank destroyers , equipped with 90 mm guns. [29]  The bulk of India's tank fleet were older M4 Sherman  tanks; some were up-gunned with the French high velocity CN 75 50 guns and could hold their own, whilst some older models were still equipped with the inferior  75 mm M3 L/40 gun . Besides the M4 tanks, India fielded the British-made  Centurion Tank  Mk 7, with the 105 mm  Royal Ordnance L7  gun, and the  AMX-13 ,  PT-76 , and  M3 Stuart  light tanks. P...