Fascinating Facts About Flags India's National Flag Notably, there are other fascinating facts regarding the Indian flag, one of which being that Gandhi advocated a flag with the charkha at its center long before India acquired its current banner. Numerous variants of the Indian National Flag have been chosen, but the current multicolored form was accepted after independence. The flag is crafted from a unique hand-spun cotton and silk fabric known as khadi.
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With the continuation of bloodshed in Kashmir and a heightened danger of terrorist activities by militant organizations headquartered in Pakistan, tensions and fears of a significant military conflict between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan remain high. In August 2019, after the deployment of tens of thousands of extra soldiers and paramilitary forces to the area, the Indian government took the unprecedented step of revoking Article 370 of the Indian constitution, thereby ending Jammu and Kashmir's unique status. India-administered Kashmir continues under lockdown, with internet and phone services being turned down occasionally and hundreds imprisoned.
Pakistan's flag is known as Parcham-e-Sitra-o-Hill, which translates as "the crescent and star flag." The flag is dark green with a vertical white bar on the hoist side taking up a quarter of the flag. The green field is centered with a white crescent moon and five-pointed star. Pakistan's flag is very similar to the banner of the All-Indian Muslim League, which has the same green field, moon, and star as the Pakistani flag, but without the white stripe.
Pakistan is one of a few of countries that are not signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Nonetheless, the Pakistani government acquired nuclear weapons, or so it is thought. The pursuit of nuclear energy as a whole started in the early 1970s. It was then when Western Powers learned about Pakistan's nuclear weapons development activities. Initially, the government developed the country's first nuclear power plant. It was situated in the vicinity of Karachi. Notable is the fact that it was made feasible by the assistance of Western countries, who supplied Pakistan the vital equipment and resources. Later, Pakistan's president said that the country's primary objective is to build nuclear weapons. It was a rebuttal to India's assertion that it is capable of developing nuclear weapons. Although there were little details on Pakistan's nuclear capabilities during the 1970s and early 1980s, there were rumors that by the mid-1980s, Pakistan already possessed a few warheads. Pakistan, on the other hand, opted to conduct their first nuclear tests in 1998. There were six tests, and they were in retaliation to five tests performed by India few weeks before to Pakistan.
