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    Sartaj Azeez said both the US and the Soviet Union "overstated the case" in order to give their impression that it was their intervention that had stopped the Bangladesh war from spiralling out of control. "In any case, Pakistan would have been ready for such an invasion as the bulk of our troops - something like 600,000 men - was in West Pakistan" Azeez said. The late Indian foreign secretary Jyotindra Nath Dixit too has dismissed Nixon's and Kissinger's claims. Full Article at New Kerala
    In any case, Pakistan would have been ready for such an invasion as the bulk of our troops - something like 600,000 men - was in West Pakistan
    SOURCE: New Kerala 17 months ago
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Manekshaw's secret, Indira's plans: a '71 mystery
  1. The Indian government's attitude after the war disproved the theory of those who still believed that India had opposed the existence of Pakistan
    SOURCE: New Kerala 17 months ago
  2. If the Soviets move against them (the Chinese) and we don't do anything, we will be finished.
    SOURCE: New Kerala 17 months ago
  3. But that would have ultimately led to the break up of Pakistan. There would have been chaos
    SOURCE: New Kerala 17 months ago
  4. Had India wanted to dismember Pakistan completely, the army could have marched straight on to Rawalpindi
    SOURCE: New Kerala 17 months ago
  5. Mrs Gandhi never had a territorial ambition, but she did want to finish off Pakistan's military capability
    SOURCE: New Kerala 17 months ago
  6. There was neither the intention, nor the capability. The relative strength of Pakistan on the western front would not have encouraged a major Indian invasion
    SOURCE: New Kerala 17 months ago
  7. You wouldn't turn your guns to the western sector when the bulk of your forces were in Bangladesh, and achieve a strategic result
    SOURCE: New Kerala 17 months ago

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