THE INDIA-PAKISTAN SITUATION (REPORT #64 - AS OF 6:00 A.M. EDT)

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• Publication Date: September 23, 1965
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
23 September 1965
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
The India-Pakistan Situation
(Report #64 - As of 6:00 A.M. EDT)
1. The India-Pakistan cease-fire was honored
without incident at 6:00 EDT last evening and there
have been no reported violations since it went into
effect.
2. Even in "peace" however, Indian and Pakistani
statements continue to be diametrically opposed. Indian
charges that Pakistan bombed Amritsar--killing 50 civil-..
ians a few hours after agreeing to a cease-fire--are
refuted by Pakistani statements that the claims are base-
less and in fact the Pak Air Force hit only military
targets along the road to Amritsar.
3. Pakistan's International Airlines says it will
resume flights between East and West Pakistan today. The
flights were suspended on 6 September when India refused
permission to the airlines for territorial overflights,
4. Embassy New Delhi estimates that Pakistan has
probably had 2,500-3,000 killed and 12,000-15,000
wounded during the fighting while India lost some 2,000
killed and 10,000 wounded.
5. UN Secretary Thant is wasting no time in
gathering a 100-man team of military observers to send
to the disputed area, So far Denmark and Canada have
each agreed to send ten officers. The new observer
group is to be known as UNIPOM, or United Nations India-
Pakistan Observer Mission.
State Department review completed
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6. The cease-fire announcement was reportedly
received less than enthusiastically by the Pakistani man"
in-the-street who has been reading in t.he..:pr,ess :Of ';'the
stunning victories scored over the Indians.
7. Embassy London reports an unofficial British
view that the most important thing now is to continue
economic aid to both sides.
8. Peking has been busy denouncing the cease-fire
and the UN, which it says is jointly dominated by "the
US and modern revisionists"-(Russia). The blast was
accompanied by another call for the establishment of a
revolutionary United Nations if a reorganization of the
UN to its standards is not accomplished.
9. The Chinese Communists have allowed their
deadline to pass without taking any action against the
Indian frontier. Instead, an authoritative People's
Daily Observer article on 22 September claims that
'Pekin'g-'s" ultimatum has forced the Indians to comply with
its demand that they destroy their "military works" on
the Chinese side of the border.
10. The article attempts to keep qpen the threat of
action by claiming that other demands--for a return of
livestock and allegedly kidnapped border inhabitants--
are still outstanding, and therefore, the "matter is far
from closed and accounts must be settled." This lan-
guage, however, is similar to claims made by Peking for
years and does not carry with it the immediacy,.contained
in the recent ultimatum.
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IflDIfl-PflKISTRfl ORDER OF BATTLE
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Srinagar 121
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?Zepore
Pathankot
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Indian forces number 100,000 in Kashmir
and 150,000 in northwest India.
Infantry Division L1 Armored Division
Infantry Brigade I-CILA Armored Brigade
Pakistan order of battle shown in black rapo New Delhi
Indian order of battle shown in red
Areas-of conf1QQI;~tjon shown in blue
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Pakistan8s forces number 67.000
a the Kashmir area and 64,000
opposite northwest India.
JAMMU AND Y~AShj1'tIR