Pakistan must learn to live with neighbours and others in a spirit of understanding. [Bhutto.]

Pakistan must learn to live with neighbours and others in a spirit of understanding. [Bhutto.]

During 1965 Pakistan aggression first in Kutch and then to Kashmir were significant. Bhutto had talks with Premier Chou-En-lai on 2nd April in Karachi which he said were a follow up of the talks he had with Chen Yi in March. Cho-En_lai again stopped over in Karachi for two hours on 9 june 1965. By this time preparations were fully under way for aggression on a much more ambitious scale in Kashmir, a warning of which was by no less a person than President Ayub khan himself. Addressing a meeting of the Pakistan Muslim league Council in Islamabad in July 1965, President Ayub Khan asked the nation “to become prepared to face the critical situation ahead and render all sacrifices for national honour”. He alleged that India believed in military solutions of various Indo-Pakistan disputes and said “Pakistan will be facing a difficult situation and the nation should be fully prepared to face it.

This was three weeks before Pakistan attempted to seize Kashmir by massive armed infiltration, and about seven weeks before its enormous military machine, built up by the U.S.A. was set in motion against India. Pakistan’s two aggressions in 1965 had China’s fullest support. In the second case China lent active help on the ground to Pakistan by issuing a ultimatum to India, thereby effectively tying down the latter’s forces in the eastern sector Of the Himalayas.
Pakistan’s Military equipment with Chinese markings was found with Pakistan Army personnel captured are killed in Kashmir. The presence of Pakistan Military mission in Peking during the conflict is not without significance.

The Chinese ultimatum ensured that Indian troops could not be moved from North East Frontier Agency to the Punjab front, where, despite Rawal pindi’s optimistic communiqués , Pakistan military position deteriorating rapidly. As the New York Times put it, Pakistan’s “only real object in fighting was to reopen the fundamental discussion of the Kashmir problem and this has not so far been attained. She has failed to inflict even a local defeat on the Indian Army and her losses to tanks and aircraft were no doubt the real reason why she has obeyed the UN Resolution. The image of Pakistan as a powerful military nation, equipped with efficient arms by its western allies, was shattered.

The foreign Minister of Pakistan, Bhutto found a essential in the existing condition of the world that “We must learn to live with neighbours and others” in a spirit of understanding. This the present Pakistan Government should follow.