THE INDIA-PAKISTAN SITUATION (REPORT #38 - AS OF 11:00 A.M. EDT)

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 14, 2004
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: September 14, 1965
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OCI No. 2634/65
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
14 September 1965
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
The India-Pakistan Situation
(Report - As of 11:00 A.M. EDT)
1. Sialkot may now be in Indian hands. Indian spokesmen,
who yesterday asserted that Indian troops had advanced to
within two miles of that city, are now claiming that "our forces
in the Jammu-Sialkot area have achieved their objectives."
While this is unconfirmed, it is lent weight by the absence of
comment on the Sialkot front in early morning Pakistani radio
broadcasts.
2. The prospect of a Pakistani counterattack and further
heavy fighting in this area is suggested by reports that Pakistan
on 13 September was diverting tanks, ammunition and artillery
from the Lahore front to Sialkot. The Pakistani Fifth Armored
Brigade was said to be moving from Lahore toward Sialkot, to-
gether with elements of the First Armored Division.
3. Indian sources today are also claiming to have broken
up a large Pakistani armored thrust south of Lahore, after a two-
day battle.
4. A moderately intensive Indian air raid on Peshawar in
the early hours of this morning caused no American casualties,
but bombs narrowly misled the residence of an American vice
consul. Other bombs fell near a MAAG building and another Ameri-
can residence. There were no reported bombs in the principal
American resident area. The target of the Indian raid was
Pakistani Air Force headquarters at Peshawar. Pakistan is calling
the raid "an indiscriminate bombing" with no damage to air force
installations. India, however, is claiming considerable damage.
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