Modern wars · 1965
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
Seventeen days of fighting, including one of the largest tank battles since the Second World War at Chawinda near Sialkot. Pakistan marks 6 September as Defence Day.
Key facts
- When
- 1965
- Where
- Kashmir, Lahore and Sialkot fronts
- Sides
- Pakistan vs India
- Commanders
- Ayub Khan vs Lal Bahadur Shastri
- Result
- Ceasefire; Tashkent Declaration, 1966
- Type
- Modern wars
- Chapter
- 7. The Modern Muslim World
The wider picture: Nation states and modern wars
Most Muslim lands won independence between the 1920s and the 1960s. Since then the region has seen more war than almost anywhere else: Israel's wars with its neighbours, two Afghan wars, the Iran Iraq war, American wars in Iraq, civil wars in Syria and Yemen, and in 2026 a war on Iran.
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