Word: dacca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strike. "No sensible general staff attacks first on the ground," said Defense Secretary K.B. Lall. Some six hours after the Pakistani air raids, India hit back in force, bombing eight West Pakistani airfields including one at Karachi. Some time after midnight, Pakistani and Indian planes tangled in dogfights over Dacca in East Pakistan. When asked to account for the six-hour delay in India's response, Lall joked that there had been some difficulty in getting the air force to move. It did appear that India was taken by surprise: nearly every senior cabinet official...
Indian spokesmen reported yesterday that thousands of East Pakistani troops were retreating in front of the Indian army's advance which came within 25 miles of Dacca. East Pakistan's capital. India claims to have wiped out the last of East Pakistan's air force during...
While Radio Pakistan claimed that Indian invaders had been "blunted on all fronts in East Pakistan," the Indian Army reported its capture of the Meghna River, 25 miles southeast of Dacca. As Indian forces drew nearer to Dacca, thousands of residents fled the city...
Francis G. Hutchins, assistant professor of Economics, said yesterday that "the conflict seams to be going according to India's plan of a show, methodical advance on Dacca." He added that the Pakistanis are probably hoping to make up for their losses on the eastern front with advances in Kashmir, so that if a cease-fire is negotiated. Pakistan will have gained some land in the conflict...
...Pakistani government, may already have decided to abandon Dacca," Hutchins said. "The invasion may actually help the Pakistani leaders by allowing them to blame their loss of East Pakistan on India rather than on internal political revolution," he said...