India – Pak Wars in Indian History:
- The major cause of the India – Pak wars was the Kashmir problem.
- On September 1, 1965 Pakistan started attack on the border and invaded Chhamb and Dewa regions.
- On September 11, UN Secretary General U-Thant reached to talk on cease fire.
- After the battle, Tashkent agreement was signed under the mediation of Russia.
- Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Sastri and Pakistan President Ayub Khan signed the agreement.
- On December 2 The Border Security Force was formed.
- Lal Bahadur Sastri died at Tashkent on 11 January 1966.
- The deplomacy of Sastri was the major source behind India’s victory in the 1965 Indo-Pak war.
- The Second Indo-Pak war was in 1971. After the war Bangladesh became an independent country
- The agreement signed after the 1971 war was the Simla Agreement.
- Simla Agreement was signed by Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Pakistan Prime Minister Sulfiker Ali Bhuto in 1972.
- The Kargil war in 1999 was against the terrorist usurpation into Kashmir from Pakistan.
- Kargil military operation of India was known as ‘Operation Vijay’.
- Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee conducted the famous Lahore Bus Journey in 1999 February.
- The Kargil war officially ended on 26 July 1999.
- Boundary line between India and Pakistan is Radcliff line.
- The Lahore declaration was signed between A.B. Vajpayee and Nawaz Sherif.
- Military operation conducted by India on Pakistan 1948 was known as Operation Sojila.
- The operation in which Indian army captured Siachin was known as Operation Meghdoot.
- India and Pakistan signed the Indus River Water Agreement in 1960.
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