Word: kutch
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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Pakistan reacted in fear in 1962 when the U.S. shipped India $200 million worth of tanks and planes to prevent the Chinese from nibbling the northeast frontier. Nehru promised that the arms would never be used against Pakistan, but a skirmish in the worthless Rann of Kutch swamplands proved that India would break her vow. The State Department quickly labelled Pakistan as the aggressor and filed the entire matter...
...latitude in dealing with the Communist world. But almost immediately an infuriated Johnson gave instructions to withhold the $225 million pledge earmarked to launch Pakistan's third five year plan. Johnson also indefinitely cancelled Ayub's visit to Washington. In April Pakistan jabbed once more at the Rann of Kutch. India retaliated with a full onslaught of American weapons and Ayub proposed the halting of all arms shipments to either side. The State Department, with its eye still on China, took no action...
...week's end, both armies were digging in along the Punjab plain, their battalions stretching 800 miles, from the Kashmir border to the Rann of Kutch on the Arabian Sea. New Delhi reported "very fierce fighting" around Lahore and Sialkot and said its tank forces had killed two Pakistani generals, but neither side was claiming major advances and the battle line appeared to be temporarily stable. No ground fighting at all was reported from East Pakistan, 1,000 miles from the Punjab front, although Shastri warned that Indian troops might move at any time. On the Indian side, there were...
...people would thank him for relieving them of a great anxiety." Ayub concluded that it was impossible to reach an agreement with the ambivalent and indirect Shastri. They settled into a tenuous coexistence that was punctuated by gunfire earlier this year in the border wasteland of the Rann of Kutch. Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson settled that one, bringing Ayub and Shastri to cautious compromise at the Commonwealth Prime Ministers meeting in London last June...
Indian and Pakistan passions run so deep on Kashmir that not even the U.S. likes to take a forthright stand. Britain and the U.S. are busily looking in other directions: Britain helped solve the Rann of Kutch dispute but is bypassing the Kashmir fighting; though heavily arming both sides, Washington has no intention of becoming embroiled...