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  Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1965 war between India and Pakistan, also known as the Second Kashmir War, was the culmination of a series of skirmishes that occurred between April 1965 and September 1965.
India crossed the International Border on the Western front on September 6 (some officially claim this to be the beginning of the war).
The "Official History of the 1965 War", drafted by the Ministry of Defence of India in 1992 was a long suppressed document that outlined intelligence and strategic blunders by India during the war.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/War_of_1965   (2326 words)

  
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 1965
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 Indo-Pakistan War of 1965
The war was initiated by Pakistan who since the defeat of India by China in 1962 had come to believe that Indian military would be unable or unwilling to defend against a quick military campaign in Kashmir, and because the Pakistani government was becoming increasingly alarmed by Indian efforts to integrate Kashmir within India.
After Pakistan was successful in the Rann of Kutch earlier in 1965, Ayub Khan (by nature a cautious person) was pressured by the hawks in his cabinet (led by Z.A. Bhutto) and the army to infiltrate the ceasefire line in Kashmir.
Most Pakistanis, schooled in the belief of their own martial prowess, refused to accept the possibility of their country's military defeat by "Hindu India" and were, instead, quick to blame their failure to attain their military aims on what they considered to be the ineptitude of Ayub Khan and his government.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/indo-pak_1965.htm   (901 words)

  
 NTI: Country Overviews: India: Nuclear Chronology
Trivedi addresses the UN First Committee stating that, although India and its fellow countries in the developing world were "nowhere near the nuclear fusion stage" and, therefore, could not yet utilize peaceful nuclear explosions (PNEs) for the purposes of large-scale construction projects, these countries should have the right to do so in the future.
He recognizes that although India does have a nuclear option, it has "no wish to become a nuclear power." He claims that while the threat from China is mostly "psycho-political," India's security is threatened by the increasing ties between China and Pakistan.
India and Canada sign an agreement under which Canada agrees to extend its assistance granted by the 1965 bilateral agreement to the design and construction of another nuclear power reactor at Rajasthan, known as RAPS-2.
www.nti.org /e_research/profiles/India/Nuclear/2296_2347.html   (4625 words)

  
 The Spirit of 6th September
It was on this day in 1965, that India launched her forces and attacked Pakistan across the international border without a warning or a declaration of war.
India arrogantly swept aside her international commitments in her desire to subjugate the region.
India has consistently used force as an instrument of her foreign and domestic policy against all her neighbours including China, and internally against her own small states and occupied Kashmir to the detriment of her religious and ethnic minorities.
www.defencejournal.com /sept99/spirit-6thsept.htm   (1282 words)

  
 Book : The India-Pakistan Air War of 1965 by PVS Jagan Mohan and Samir Chopra [www.bharat-rakshak.com]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
India was often using untried and untested aircraft beyond their designated performance profiles.
India persisted in attempting self-reliance in military matters – a process that continues to this day as can be witnessed in its manufacture of nuclear weapons and the development of an indigenous aviation and space program.
The armoured battles in the Sialkot sector in 1965 were the most intense since the Second World War – rivaled only by Israeli-Egyptian battles in the Sinai in 1973, and the air battles often took place at low-altitudes in high performance aircraft.
www.bharat-rakshak.com /IAF/Books/Synopsis.html   (1175 words)

  
 The China-India Border War
India saw how weak her Army was, and began a massive buildup and modernization of her Army in the mid-1960s.
And while China and India dis- puted the border on two fronts (east in NEFA and west in Aksai Chin, this western border was especially significant, for China had built a military highway--to link Sinkiang and Tibet--here in 1956-57; Peking was adamant in retaining her right to this land.
India seemed almost totally unaware that she was heavily outnumbered along the border and that China (unlike India) was well prepared logistically and well versed in alpine warfare tactics.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1984/CJB.htm   (17833 words)

  
 RAW facts on South Asia India’s unconventional war strategy
Unfortunately for India, the controversial Indo-Sri Lankan Accord of July 1987 proved to be as much of a failure as India’s policy of direct intervention.
The result was India’s massively assisted LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) turned on its benefactor and declared war against the Indian forces in Sri Lanka.
All in all, when the international community is increasingly condemning overt war as an instrument of state policy, India has already sought an alternative, indirect and covert mode of warfare through RAW which seeks to destabilise and weaken the states of South Asia from within.
www.defencejournal.com /jan99/rawfacts.htm   (2744 words)

  
 Pakistan Ayub Khan's Foreign Policy and the 1965 War with India - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural ...
Pakistan feared that India might repeat a 1948 incident that curtailed the water supply as a means of coercion.
This informal alliance became a keystone of Pakistan's foreign policy and grew to include a border agreement in March 1963, highway construction connecting the two countries at the Karakoram Pass, agreements on trade, and Chinese economic assistance and grants of military equipment, which was later thought to have included exchanges in nuclear technology.
The 1965 war began as a series of border flare-ups along undemarcated territory at the Rann of Kutch in the southeast in April and soon after along the cease-fire line in Kashmir.
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 1966 in India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1965 in India, other events of 1966, 1967 in India and the Timeline of Indian history.
January 3: Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri and President of Pakistan Ayub Khan sign a Soviet-mediated peace pact in Tashkent, Uzbek S.S.R. January 11: Prime Minister Shastri dies in Tashkent.
Reita Faria, Femina Miss India is crowned Miss World, the first Indian to win the title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1966_in_India   (140 words)

  
 1971 India-Pakistan War: Origins of the Crisis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
India, which became independent on 15 August 1947, stood for a secular, equitable polity based on the universally accepted idea that all men are created equal and should be treated as such.
Pakistan was suggesting that should India continue with its plans it should expect total war as in 1965.
Confident that another war would be as much of a stalemate as the 1965 Conflict, the Pakistanis got increasingly bold and finally on 3 December 1971 reacted with a massive co-ordinated air strike on several Indian Air Force stations in the West.
freeindia.org /1971war/origins.html   (884 words)

  
 Did India plant 1965 war plans?
There is much speculation in India about the identity of the brigadier, who according to Captain (retd) Gohar Ayub, the former foreign minister of Pakistan, had sold Indian Army plans to Pakistan for Rs 20,000, before the 1965 Indo-Pak war.
A little backdrop to the 1965 clash of arms between India and Pakistan is necessary to unearth the truth.
It is true that India did not achieve the kind of comprehensive victory in 1965 that it did in 1971.
in.rediff.com /news/2005/jun/02spec11.htm   (1190 words)

  
 CBC News Indepth: India
The Congress party, which ruled India for most of the time since independence, is defeated in national elections by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
In February, the prime ministers of India and Pakistan sign the Lahore Declaration, in which both sides agree to work together to prevent conflict between the two nuclear powers.
India's prime minister and Pakistan's president meet at the northern Indian city of Agra.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/india/timeline.html   (862 words)

  
 1965 in India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
See also: 1964 in India, other events of 1965, 1966 in India and the Timeline of Indian history.
September 6-22 - A full-scale India-Pakistan war is fought over Kashmir, which ends after a UN call for a ceasefire.
December 1 - The Border Security Force is formed as a special force to guard the borders.
www.encyclopedia-1.com /1/19/1965_in_india.html   (94 words)

  
 World Vegetarian Congress 1965 - president in India
Kahler and other guests, said that India is very proud to have been associated with the International Vegetarian Union.
After the 15th World Vegetarian Congress, which was attended by delegates from about twenty-three countries of the world, a sort of international brotherhood among vegetarians has been established, resulting in interchange of views, literature and contacts.
Mankar, Vice-President of the International Vegetarian Union and Regional Secretary for India and Eastern countries, gave an account of the progress of the vegetarian movement in India and announced the programme for the forthcoming 18th World Vegetarian Congress, to be held at Swanwick, Derbyshire, England.
www.ivu.org /congress/wvc65/india.html   (278 words)

  
 Pakistan Army - The Indo-Pak War 1965
Skirmishes at the Rann of Kutch flared up almost accidentally in the spring of 1965, and India and Pakistan found themselves drawn into the first of their two undeclared wars.
When British India was partitioned, the issue was inherited by India, to whom Kutch acceded, and Pakistan, whom Sind joined, involving some 3,500 miles of territory leading to frequent border incidents, from January 1965 onwards.
It was the fear of India being crashed by Pakistan and also the chance of china also getting in the War that both the Soviet Union and the United States pressured the UN to arrange for an immediate ceasefire, to keep China away from this conflict.
www.pakarmy.8k.com /1965.htm   (838 words)

  
 VayuSena - The 1965 War between India and Pakistan
VayuSena - The 1965 War between India and Pakistan
Left : A recce picture of PA M-48 Patton tanks in Indian territory taken by Fg.
Pakistan Army'e elite SSG units were air-dropped over IAF airfields in an attempt to destroy them.
vayu-sena.tripod.com /1965.html   (101 words)

  
 The Battle for Assal Uttar: Pakistan and India 1965
Four of India's regiments were, however, equipped with the AMX-13 or PT-76, tanks which while excellent for reconnaissance, were near useless against Pakistan's M47/48 and M4 Shermans, and quite inferior to Pakistan's two M24 Chaffee regiments.
India, for example, has still to release its war histories for 1965 and 1971, though xeroxed copies were obtained by the Times of India.
India, by contrast, had yet to seriously undertake its armor expansion, so all its regiments were seasoned.
www.orbat.com /site/history/historical/india/assaluttar.html   (5743 words)

  
 1965 in India Definition / 1965 in India Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
[click for more], other events of 1965, 1966 in India Events January 3: Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri and President of Pakistan Ayub Khan sign a Soviet-mediated peace pact in Tashkent, Uzbek S.S.R. January 11: Prime Minister Shastri dies in Tashkent.
January 26 - Hindi Hindi (हिन्दी;) is a language spoken in most states in northern and central India.
Due to Muslim influence in Northern India, there are additionally a large number of Persian, Arabic and Turkish loanwords....
www.elresearch.com /1965_in_India   (277 words)

  
 India 20A - Our Peace Corps Group | Served 1965 - 1967
On August 31, 1965 sixty-seven Americans arrived at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to begin three months of Peace Corps training.
We ranged in age from 21 to 65 and came from states representing a cross-section of the country ranging from Hawaii to New York.
After three solid months of training, 37 of us were selected as Peace Corps Volunteers and were sent to India in a group known as India 20A.
www.india20a.org   (260 words)

  
 1965 in India -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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September 6-22 - A full-scale India-Pakistan war is fought over (An area in southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed between Pakistan and India) Kashmir, which ends after a (An organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security) UN call for a ceasefire.
December 1 - The (Click link for more info and facts about Border Security Force) Border Security Force is formed as a special force to guard the borders.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1965_in_India.htm   (187 words)

  
 screenonline: Passage to India, A (1965)
In 1920s India, during the dying years of the British Raj, the fiancée of the City Magistrate accuses a local doctor of trying to rape her.
adapting the climactic courtroom scene from A Passage to India for the stage.
This major section shows Aziz, a man of medicine and a progressive thinker who longingly recalls India's Mogul past, striving to reconcile East and West, past and present.
www.screenonline.org.uk /tv/id/1052917   (382 words)

  
 Indo-Pak War [September, 1965] - Lahoria Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The application of articles 356 and 357 of the Indian Constitution to the Kashmir State which enabled the President of India to establish Presidential Rule in Kashmir and legislate, there was an effort to amalgamate Kashmir completely into the Indian Union.
The Sardar-i-Riyasat would henceforth be known as Governor and would be appointed by the President of India instead of being elected by the local assembly.
At 3:00 AM on September 6, 1965, without a formal declaration of war, Indians crossed the international border of West Pakistan and launched a three-pronged offensive against Lahore, Sialkot and Rajasthan.
www.lahoria.com /forum/showthread.php?t=942   (713 words)

  
 Warbirds of India - [Pakistan] F-104 Starfighter Survivors
Between 1961 and 1965, the PAF procured 14 of these aircraft.
During the 1965 Pakistan-India War, the F-104s flew a total of 246 hours and 45 minutes while during the 1971 War, the F-104s flew a total of 103 hours and forty-five minutes.
Of the fourteen aircraft, two were officially lost in the 65 War and another two were lost to Indian AA fire and MiGs respectively in the 1971 conflict.
www.warbirdsofindia.com /ovpak02.html   (732 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Archive Article - 1965: India
MSN Encarta - Archive Article - 1965: India
Cross references refer to Archive articles of the same year.
This was the first serious breach of peace since 1948, when a UN cease-fire arrangement ended the bloody war...
encarta.msn.com /sidebar_1741579207/1965_India.html   (170 words)

  
 INDO-PAK WAR 1965
The Pakistani invasion of India in 1965, similar to that of 1947, was a well thought out diabolical plan consistent with Pakistan's anti-India and annex-Kashmir policies pursued since its formation.
The death in May 1964 of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and the coming to power of the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as Nehru's successor were treated by Pakistan as an encouragement to complete its unfinished war of 1947.
Shastri was considered as a weakling and India was perceived as being deeply pre-occupied with its internal crises.
www.jammu-kashmir.com /basicfacts/politics/indo_pak_war.html   (360 words)

  
 Seeds of nuclear confrontation between India and Pakistan
We always came out not only for the strengthening of friendly relations between Soviet Union and India and Pakistan but also for the reign of peace and friendship between these countries themselves." He did not utter a word which could be considered as sympathetic to India which had been subjected to unprovoked aggression.
It implied that it was the pressure of the Soviet Union which forced India to accept a patently unjust settlement.
Had India not put all her eggs in Soviet basket and had it maintained dialogue with USA also before and after going to Tashkent, it might have been saved from the predicament in which Shastri had to sign the Tashkent Declaration against his better judgment.
www.indiadaily.com /editorial/06-06-04.asp   (669 words)

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