THE INDIA-PAKISTAN SITUATION (REPORT #20 - AS OF 1100 A.M. EDT)

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00472A001500010020-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 16, 2005
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: September 8, 1965
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
8 September 1965
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
The India-Pakistan Situation
Repor.. 5._.._o,l _-T_TU~ K.'M EDT)
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E__ I n ian troops attempting to push
owar Lahore have run into difficulties.
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3. There is little information from the military front
where Indian troops were reported to have crossed the Pakistani
boundary in the direction of Hyderabad and Karachi. Indian
announcements Maim that Indian troops have captured the
tow.i of Gad.ra, about six miles inside the border.
State Derpartment review(s) completed.
i n orces have bogged down only a mile or two
nd the Pakistani frontier. The attack is said to be
stalled, with Indian forces digging in and being subjected
to increasing and heavy Pnkiai-, ni rntin+or ++n,,1,,- AV.
2, As regards the Kashmir s;ctor, the Indian defense
minister has told parliament, according to Delhi r;.:dio, that
Indian troops have crossed the Jammu-West Pakistan border
"under the overall plan to check attacks at the bases in
Pakistan from which they are mounted and sustained." This
is not confirmed. If true, it would represent yet another
thrust into Pakistani territory probably aimed in the direction
of the Pakistani base at Sialkot, towards which another Aron
was mounted several days ago farther south.
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4. Pakistan continues its approaches to variois nations
for aid or other su o
ews
espa c es rom a ar a s a e that Indonesia has agreed to
help Pakistan against India and that President Sukarno has ar-
ranged a meeting of the Supreme Operation Command for tonight
to discuss what kind of help Indonesia will give Pakistan.
5. Prime Minister Pearson of Canada has announced that
both India and Pakistan have rejected his offer to mediate the
Kashmir dispute. In Ceylon, a Ministry of External Affairs
official told a US Embassy official that Ceylon might consider
offering itself as mediator if U Thant's efforts are not
successful.
6. Peking is pressing ahead with its campaign aimed at
deterring India from major escalation of the Kashmir war by
renewed threats of possible Chinese intervention. The Chinese
have followed up their menacing government statement broadcast
yesterday with an open diplomatic note to New Delhi delivered
on 8 September which restates in harsh terms the main points
already made by Peking.
7. The note protests alleged "successive serious violations
of Chinese territory by Indian troops." It demands that India
dismantle military structures built "beyond or on" the Sikkim
border, and asserts that India must withdraw its armed forces
and stop all acts of "aggression" or bear responsibility for
the consequences.
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