1. INDIAN PURCHASE OF MIG AIRCRAFT 2. INDIAN BORDER DISPUTE WITH PAKISTAN AND CHINA

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• Case Number: F-2018-01236
• Publication Date: May 19, 1962

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"REFERRING TO PAKISTAN-CHINA TALKS ON BORDER DEMARCATION OF
KASHMIR UNDER PAKISTAN ILLEGAL OCCUPATION AND SINKIANG, PRIME MINISTER
SAID THAT PAKISTAN AND CHINA WERE NEGOTIATING TO HAVE AN UNHOLY-
ALLIANCE IC DEMARCATE THE BOUNDARIES WEST OF KARAKORAM OF SINKIANG
REGION OF CHINA AND CONTIGUOUS AREAS OF INDIAN STATE OF KASHMIR UNDER
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ILLEGAL OCCUPATION WITH PAKISTAN WAS A DIRECT THREAT TO INDIAIS 0:30(3)
IrnAl ccivrprRnmITY m/FR KASHMIR AND AN ACT OF AGGRESSION_ AGALLST_IE:
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THE SECURITY OF INDIA, TO WHICH BOTH PAKISTAN AND CHINA WERE PLANNING.
PRIME MINISTER FURTHER APPRISED THAT DURING THE LAST 12 MONTHS
CHINESE TROOPS HAD INTRUDED ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS INTO INDIAN
TERRITORY; CONSTRUCTED ROADS CLOSE TO THE BORDER.. SECTOR IN THE MIDDLE
AND EASTERN SECTORS AND WITHIN OUR TERRITORY IN THE WESTERN SECTOR
NEAR LADAKH. CHINESE HAD ALSO SET UP NEW ARMY POSTS CLOSER TO THE
BORDER .MPARED TO THOSE EXISTING IN THE PREVIOUS YEARS. THEREFORE,
THE RELATIONS WITH CHINA ALREADY STRAINED TENDED TO WORSEN IN THE LAST
FEW MONTHS. THE GOVERNMENT SHOULDITHEREFORE, VIEW SERIOUSLY THESE
CHANGES AND TAKE APPROPRIATE MEASURES TO STRENGTHEN OUR FRONTIER
LINES TO PUSH OUT THE AGGRESSORS FROM INDIAN SOIL.
"IN THIS CONNECTION THE PRIME MINISTER, HOWEVER, EMPHASIZED THAT
THROUGH
GOVERNMENT WOULD STRIVE/ALL POSSIBLE AVENUES TO LIBERATE THOSE
TERRITORIES WHICH WERE UNDER-FORCEABLE OCCUPATION BY PAKISTAN AS WELL
AS CHINA IN A FRIENDLY AND-PEACEFUL WAY. ,HE POINTED OUT THAT ANY
WAR ON THESE ISSUES WOULD NOT ONLY BE TREMENDOUSLY DISASTROUS BUT
WOULD RETARD THE PROGRESS THAT INDIA HAD MADE SINCE OVER A DECADE.
BUT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES THE GOVERNMENT WOULD NOT COWDOWN TO
THE THREATS OF THESE COUNTRIES AND LOSE OUF, TERRITORES.
"IN THIS CONNECTION THE PRIME MINISTER ALSO POINTED OUT THAT AS
A RESULT OF FREE FLOW OF AMERICAN ARMS, WHICH ARE MODERN ARMS,
TO PAKISTAN THERE WAS AN IMMINENT DANGER OF SURPRISE ATTACK FROM
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PAKISTAN SIDE UNLESS INDIA ALSO AUGMENTED ITS ARMS POSITION AND WAS
FULLY PREPARED TO MEET THE CHALLENGE. THE PRIME MINISTER MADE A
REFERENCE TO THE SOVIET UNION'S PROPOSAL FOR SUPPLY OF MIG TYPE
SUPERSONIC FIGHTER AIRCRAFT AND SAID THAT THE FT:RFORMANCE OF THESE
FIGHTER AIRCRAFT WERE REPORTED TO BE OF A SUPERIOR TYPE TO THAT OF
F-104 FIGHTER AIRCRAFT SUPPLIED TO PAKISTAN BY THE UNITED STATES,
THE SOVIET UNION HAS ALSO ASSURED TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR MANUFACTURING
THESE TYPES OF AIRCRAFT IN INDIA IN DUE COURSE. THE PRIME MINISTER
SAID THAT KEEPING IN VIEW OF THE GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION IN NORTHERN
FRONTIER WHERE CHINESE WERE BUILDING UP ROADS AND AIR FIELDS
AND INCREASING THEIR MILITARY STRENGTH ON ONE HAND AND PAKISTAN
INTRANSIGENCE AND BELLIGERENT ATTITUDE ON THE OTHER HAND, THE GOVERNMENT
OF INDIA SHOULD KEEP VIGILANCE TO THESE CHANGES AND IN ORDER TO MEET
ANY EVENTUALITY WE SHOULD PROCURE THESE AIRCRAFT TO MAKE OUR AIR
FORCES STRONG ENOUGH TO REPEL THE ENEMY. THE PRIME MINISTER
-10WEVER, MENTIONED THAT THE ANGLO�US WERE AVERSE TO THIS DEAL
4ITH RUSSIA AND WANTED US TO NEGOTIATE WITH THEM FOR OUR DEMANDS,
3U1 IN VIEW OF WHAT THEY HAD SUPPLIED TO PAKISTAN, INDIA FELT THAT
DROCUREMENT OF SIMILAR TYPES OF AIRCRAFT OR ARMS FROM THESE COUNTRIES
ODULD KEEP US IN A DISADVANTAGEOUS POSITION, HENCE THEIR PLEA WAS
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