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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.
A massive military crackdown in East Pakistan had resulted over one million refugees pouring into India. The Government of India decided to go to war. However General Sam Manekshaw requested to postpone the offensive till the Indian Army was fully prepared. Acquisition of weapons, development of infrastructures, mobilization, training, dumping ...
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 ...
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, [116] most notably Kargil (which was in turn the focal point of a war between the two nations in 1999). This was done as a measure of promoting "lasting peace" and acknowledged ...
Prior to Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, India had no plans for large scale military action in East Pakistan.Since the Sino-Indian War of 1962, the primary objective of the Indian Army Eastern Command was the defence of the Indian northern and eastern borders, defending the "Shiliguri Corridor", [1] and on combating insurgencies raging in Mizoram, Nagaland, Manipur and the Naxalites in West ...
The first battle saw, according to veterans of the battle, the fiercest fighting of the war, but the second was much tamer. The Indian objective was to capture a network of Pakistani fortifications centred around the village of Hilli to allow for an advance on the town of Bogra. [13] [14]
A war of words between Bangladesh and neighbour India is threatening to spiral out of control following protests and counter-protests over the alleged ill-treatment of Hindu minorities in the country.
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 ...