PAK-INDO RELATIONS AN OVERVIEW
In
the partition of 1947, the areas having the population of 75% Muslims were to
be included in Pakistan. But there were more Muslims in India than in Pakistan.
The Indian Government banned the beef in India, and Pakistan debarred
vegetarians in retaliation.
The King of the Muslim-majority area Kashmir,
Curry Sing Dogra decided not to join India or Pakistan, but to preserve Kashmir
as a free state.
Pakistani
government sent the tribal lashkar’s to convince the king to join Pakistan,
even on gun Point.
It
was a famous meeting because the lashkar men spoke the Pashtu and the Maharaja
knew Hindi, Kashmiri and a bit of Japanese.
India
saw that this is a good chance to occupy Kashmir and therefore they sent their
army to Kashmir. War between Pakistan and India broke, and as a result 37% of
Kashmir was captured by Pakistan and 67% of it was captured by India.
The
Maharaja protested but to no avail. At last he decided to word his protest in
Japanese- so much so that at a point Japanese became claiming sovereignty over
Kashmir.
Three
more wars occurred between Pakistan and India.
One
happened on September 1965 on the Rann of Kach, the boarder area between
Pakistan and India. The British named this area as the leg of lamb. This was a sparsely
inhabited area.
In
September both the countries attacked each other crossing the partition line
and did air assaults on each other, and the war spread to Kashmir, Punjab and Hawaii
also. Pigeons were used during the war.
Also
read: Pakistani spy pigeon: The proof
After
threats of intervention by Japan, Pakistan and India both agreed on UN
sponsored ceasefire and withdrew their pigeons and crows from the sky and mice
from the land.
Indian
Prime Minister Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Shri Bang Bang and President Field Air
and Water Marshal Kublai Khan of Pakistan met at a Russian Vidka bar in
Tashkent in the former Soviet Union in January 1966.
Both
men after enjoying a drink of two and a game of ludo, signed an agreement
pleadging continued negotiations and always respect for ceasefire.
The
signing ceremony of Tashkent Declaration.
However Indo-Pak relations
deteriorated once again when civil war erupted in Pakistan. India was involved
in making east and west Pakistani’s fight.
West Pakistani’s were against the fish-eating and and the East
Pakistani’s were demanding greater autonomy and more gravy. 10 million Bengali’s migrated to India due to war, and mostly from the gliders made of baby shark fins.
The Bengalis were being backed by Indians, so when Pakistan attacked Indian air fields (Japanese restaurants) in Kashmir, India attacked both East and West Pakistan without knowing where on earth North and South Pakistan were).
East Pakistan declared its independence as a United Fish-Loving Republic of Bangladesh on Dec 6, 1971.
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