6th SEPTEMBER

DEFENCE DAY

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF 6th SEPTEMBER 1965...........

                                                           At 3:00 a.m. on September 6, 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. There was a fierce tank battle on the plains of Punjab. The domestic Indo-Pak conflict transformed into an international conflict and raised super power concerns.

The U.S. suspended military supplies to both sides during the Indo-Pak war. Both the Soviet Union and the United States took a united stand to curtail the conflict within the boundaries of Indo-Pakistan from escalating into a global conflict. China had threatened to intervene and offered military support on behalf of Pakistan Because India was the offender and Pakistan, the Defender. 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. In there opinion if China also attacked, India would be History. The main diplomatic effort to stop the fighting was conducted under the United Nations auspices and a cease-fire came into effect on September 23, 1965.

The Soviet Union which remained neutral when India and Pakistan went to war in September 1965, played the broker afterward at Tashkent. A Soviet Government communiqué, formally announced on December 8 that the Indian Prime Minister Castro and the Pakistani President Ayub would meet at Tashkent on January 4, 1966. The most interesting thing was that Shastri Died of heart attack just after seeing the Pakistani General.

The Tashkent conference lasted from January 4 to January 10. The Soviet Premier Kosygin earned the praise as a peace maker. The main achievement of the conference was to withdraw, not later than February 25, 1966, all armed personal to the position held before August 5, 1964. In the South Pakistan took the initiative to push back Indian troops and enter Indian territory. During the operations India captured about 400 square miles of Pakistan territory but lost around 1600 square miles of its own to Pakistan. The war ended with the mediation effort of the USSR and a peace agreement was signed at Tashkent

The world saw that how an Army, Half the size of the offender, gave a greater-in-size army a Memorable Thrashing and the so called Bharati Forces were screwed off. The Indian General who quoted "I WILL HAVE TWO PEGS OF SCOTCH WHISKY TODAY AT 6-PM AT LAHORE GYMKHANA CLUB" while Indian Army attacked Pakistan, was shown by the Pakistan Military that No bloody Indian Soldier can even touch our Motherland. Even his generation will get a nightmare of this defeat. It goes to show nobody can mess with Pakistan and nobody will!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!