THE SOUTH ASIAN MILITARY HANDBOOK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85T00875R001100030002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 49
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 1, 1974
• Content Type: CH

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Pakistan is actively exploring for uranium and has located a number of
low-grade deposits. Thus it may eventually be in a position to produce
enough uranium for its nuclear program.
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Chronology of Major Events in South Asia, 1940-1974
1940 All India Muslim League, meeting in Lahore, calls for
March 23 separation of predominantly Muslim areas from India
1942 All India Congress Committee calls on British to
August 8 "quit India"
1947 In plebiscite boycotted by advocates of independ-
July ence, the Northwest Frontier Province votes to join
Pakistan
August 14 Pakistani independence
August 15 Indian independence
October 27 Maharajah of Jaminu and Kashmir accedes to India;
Indian troops enter Kashmir to fight Pakistani-backed
tribal invaders
1948
February 4
1949
January 1
Ceylon becomes independent
Kashmir cease-fire becomes effective
July 26 Agreement reached on cease-fire line in Kashmir
1951 King Tribhuvan restored to throne of Nepal following
February 18 a revolt ending a century of rule under hereditary
prime ministership of Rana family
1953 Mohammed Daoud Khan becomes Prime Minister of
November 20 Afghanistan
1954 US and Pakistan sign Mutual Defense Assistance
May 17 Agreement
September 7 Pakistan signs SEATO Treaty
1955 King Tribhuvan dies; Crown Prince Mahendra assumes
March power in Nepal
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July 1 Pakistan joins Baghdad Pact (later CENTO)
1956
April
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike becomes Prime Minister of
Ceylon, following landslide victory for his party in
general elections
August Afghanistan signs first contracts for military equip-
ment from USSR and other communist countries
British military bases on Ceylon turned over to
November Ceylonese government
1958 Communal riots in Ceylon
May
October 27 Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub Khan seizes power in
Pakistan
1959 Pakistan signs bilateral defense agreement with US
March 6
September Prime Minister Bandaranaike assassinated
1960 First Soviet military supply agreement with India
November
December 16
1961
September 6
1962
October 20
October 28
November 14
November 21
December 1
December 20
King Mahendra assumes direct rule in Nepal, abolishes
parliament, and bans political parties
Afghanb close border and sever diplomatic relations
with Pakistan
Indian conquest of Goa
After months of border clashes, heavy fighting breaks
out between India and China
Chinese halt their successful offensive
US agrees to grant emergency arms aid to India
Unilateral Chinese cease-fire goes into effect
Chinese begin unilateral withdrawal
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January
March 2
March 9
September
1964
May 27
1964
October
April 1965
June 30
Early August
September 1
September 6
September 8
September 22
September
1966
January 10
January 11
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Soviets begin shipments of MIG-21s to India
Pakistan signs border agreement with China
Daoud resigns as Afghan Prime Minister
Afghan-Pakistani diplomatic and trade relations
restored
Jawaharlal Nehru dies
Lal Bahadur Shastri chosen Prime Minister of India
King Zahir of Afghanistan signs new Afghan constitu-
tion providing for limited democracy
Ceylon and India conclude pact on future of stateless
Tamils on Ceylon
Fighting breaks out in the Rann of Kutch
Formal cease-fire signed more than a month after
fighting ends in the Rann
Pakistan begins infiltrating "freedom fighters" into
Kashmir
Pakistani troops launch major attack into Kashmir
Indians launch full-scale attack against West Pakistan
US embargoes all arms to India and Pakistan
Cease-fire goes into effect
First Chinese military supply agreement with Pakistan
At Tashkent, India and Pakistan agree essentially to
return to the status quo ante bellum
Prime Minister Shastri dies
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January 19 Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister
1967 US modifies arms policy to permit sale of some spares
April to India and Pakistan
1968 Students riot in Rawalpindi; disorders spread to all of
November 7 Pakistan
1969 Ayub resigns and is replaced by General A. M. Yahya
March 25 Khan
1970 Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes Prime Minister
May of Ceylon following general elections; forms coalition
government
October US announces one-time exception in sale of military
equipment to Pakistan
December 7 Z. A. Bhutto' Pakistan People's Marty sweeps Na-
tional Assembly elections in West Pakistan; Mujibur
Rahman's Awami League in East Pakistan. Provincial
Assembly elections on December 17 follow same
pattern
1971. East Pakistan Awami League calls for a general strike
March 1 to protest Yahya's postponement of the convening of
the National Assembly
March 15 Mujib announces he is taking over administration of
East Pakistan; Yahya begins talks with Mujib
March 25-26 Talks break down; Pakistani army moves to restore
central authority in East Pakistan; Mujib arrested
April Island-wide insurrection on Ceylon almost topples
government
April 17 Bangladesh Republic (in exile) officially established
July 2 US imposes total embargo on arms to Pakistan
August 9 Indo-Soviet Friendship Treaty signed
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December 3 Following India's gradually :ncreasing involvement in
civil war in East Pakistan and a military build-up by
both sides in the west, the Pakistani air force attacks
Indian air bases in the west; full-scale war breaks out
on both fronts
1971
December 16
December 17 Cease-fire goes into effect in the west
December 20 Yahya resigns; 7. A. Bhutto becomes President
1972 Mujibur Rahman, re~eased from Pakistani custody on
January January 7, arrives in Dacca three days later and be-
comes Prime Minister
January 31 King Mahendra dies; Crown Prince Birendra assumes
power in Nepal
July 3 Mrs. Gandhi and Bhutto reach agreement at Simla
December 7 Delineation of new "line of control" in Kashmir
completed
December 20 Mutual troop withdrawals completed
1973 US announces resumption of limited supply of arms
March 14 to Pakistan and India
July 17 Mohammed Daoud becomes President of Afghanistan
after military coup ends the monarchy
August 28 India and Pakistan sign agreement in New Delhi for
repatriation of prisoners of war and non-Bengali
Muslims to Pakistan and Bengalees to Bangladesh
Autumn New tensions develop along Pakistani-Afghan border
1974 Pakistan formally recognizes Bangladesh
February 22
April 9 At tripartite meeting in New Delhi, Bangladesh agrees
to abandon war crimes trials in exchange for Pak-
istan's apology for actions' committed by its army in
East Pakistan in 1971.
May 18
India detonates a nuclear device
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