SITUATION IN KASHMIR (REPORT #15 - AS OF 4:00 P.M. EDT)

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• Publication Date: September 6, 1965
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
6 September 1965
DIA review(s) compIPLLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
Situation in Kashmir
(Report- oT-b-Up-m , EDT)
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1. The extent of the Indian advance toward Lahore
is not yet clear, but the Indian forces do not appear to
have been threatening the city as of 9:30 p.m. local time
(12:30 EDT), The US Consul General there was reached
by telephone from Karachi at that time and reported the
city "quiet" and that sounds of firing had subsided.
He refuted press reports that the Lahore airport, which
is not far from the consulate, had been taken by the Indians.
2. Pakistani spokesmen claim to have turned back the
Indian thrust toward Sialkot and driven the Indians from
Pakistani territory in that sector of the front. They
also report that the three prongs of the attack on
Lahore have been contained just inside',the border.
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somewhat more than two divisions
that the attack force was from units regularly stationed
along the border and that no advance buildup had been
noted. India's 7th Infantry Division is normally
stationed at Ferozepore, while the 15th Infantry Division
is normally between Amritsar and Pathankot. These units
are now backed up by the 4th and 6th Infantry Divisions
and the 1st Armored Division.
4. New Delhi spokesmen provide few details of the
battle in the Punjab, but tontine to claim that it is
going well. The Indians report that they have succeeded
in stoping the Pakistani thrust toward Akhnur in Kashmir,
and that the attacking forces have been repulsed. They
add that Pakistani tanks have been forced to withdraw from
the action in Kashmir and proceed southward to meet the
Indian threat in the Punjab. The relief of Akhnur and
the deviation of the Pakistani attack from its course toward
Jammu was almost certainly a major objective of the new
Indian initiative.
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5. In addition to declaring a state of emergency and
calling for a blackout in Lahore, Rawalpindi, and Karachi,
Pakistan reportedly has called up all its reservists up
to and including the rank of major. It will be some time
before these reactivated troops can effectively be brought
to bear, and they will probably have little impact upon
course of the current clash.
6. Reports just coming in give further details of
the course of todays encounter. An Indian Defense
Ministry spokesman said Pakistani paratroops were
dropped far behind Indian lines in the Punjab, according
to press reports from New Delhi. They dropped in small
groups near Patiala, station of the Indian 2nd Armored
Brigade, and Pathankot, a rail terminus near the Kashmir-
Punjab border. The reason for a paratroop strike at Patiala-
Ambala area, over 140 miles inside India, is unclear unless
it is designed to disrupt communication lines between
New Delhi and the front. The reports of the paradrop are
not confirmed by independent reporting.
7. A press report from Rawalpindi claims that the
Pakistani Air Force downed 22 Indian fighters today while
losing only two Pakistani aircraft.
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