Sibling Rivalry #15 - Shimla Agreement - the Midnight Treaty

After the lightening campaign in East Pakistan and liberation of Bangladesh, the post war negotiations took place at Shimla in Jun-Jul 1972. A reported verbal agreement between the two prime ministers which was never formalised meant that the Shimla agreement was more significant for what was unsaid rather than what was included in the document. Haskar PapersIndia-Pakistan in War & Peace - JN DixitZulfi Bhutto of Pakistan- His Life & Times - Stanley WolpertPakistan’s Foreign Policy 1947-2019 - Abdul SattarShooting for a Century - Stephen P. CohenTHE SIMLA ACCORD -- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto -- Pakistan HorizonDeclassified US State Department and CIA documents #History #International Relations #Geopolitics #Indiaworldrelations #Indianneighbourhood #IndianHistoryPodcast #HistoryPodcast #ShimlaAgreement #IndiaPakistanWar #1971