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India thus started to involve itself deeper into the conflict brewing in the east and stationed its troops near the border. The Boyra salient, in north-western East Pakistan, consisted of Garibpur and was at an important crossroads for both nations. Its control was thus vital, as it gave the Indian Army a highway to Jessore from India.
Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 Part of the Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts, Cold War, and Bangladesh Liberation War First row: Lt-Gen. A.A.K. Niazi, the Cdr. of Pakistani Eastern Comnd., signing the documented Instrument of Surrender in Dacca in the presence of Lt. Gen. Jagjit Singh Aurora (GOC-in-C of Indian Eastern Comnd.). Surojit Sen of All India Radio is seen holding a microphone on the ...
After Pakistan launched air attacks on India on 3 December, the Indian Army crossed the border into Bangladesh. By the end of the war on 16 December 1971, the Indian Army had isolated and surrounded the remnants of the 14th Division in Sylhet and Bhairabbazar; the 39th Division was cornered in Comilla and Chittagong, with all other areas of ...
Part of Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: Major Niazi of 31 Punjab regiment surrendering to Lt Col V.R. Swaminathan of 22 Maratha Light infantry after the battle of Hilli/Bogra on 16 December 1971
Further, as a gesture of goodwill, nearly 200 soldiers who were sought for war crimes by Bengalis were pardoned by India. [116] The accord also gave back 13,000 km 2 (5,019 sq mi) of land that Indian troops had seized in West Pakistan during the war, though India retained a few strategic areas, [ 117 ] most notably Kargil (which was in turn the ...
Wear played a part in the effort to search for the son of Star-Telegram Publisher Amon G. Carter, Lt. Amon Carter Jr., who was held captive as a prisoner of war from 1943-1945.
[69] [70] India confirmed that one of its soldiers was in Pakistani custody, but denied that it was linked to the incident or that any of its soldiers had been killed. [71] The Indian operation was said to be in retaliation for a militant attack on the Indian army at Uri on 18 September in the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir that ...
Deadly protests by thousands of students in Bangladesh against quotas in government jobs has brought focus to a history of violence in a country born out of a war between India and Pakistan in ...