Task: Pos Tagging
Input (English): Sentence: A {{ veteran }} of India 's military intervention in the Jaffna peninsula to help implement the 1987 Indo - Sri Lanka Peace Accord - which ambitiously provided for the disarming of the formidable LTTE - Kalkat said the new defense deal would essentially be a reiteration of the older one minus its military commitment . 
Word: veteran
Output (English): NOUN