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When bullets fly, how Rawalpindi connects
Hindustan Times
|May 14, 2025
In a modest chamber with a high ceiling, inside one of the most secure offices in India, in a white-walled room on the first floor of the imposing South Block, a phone sits atop a table.
It is always manned, sometimes by a major, and at others by a lieutenant colonel, top officials told HT on Tuesday.
No one else accesses the phone.
This story is from the May 14, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times.
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