Asia 871
Participants: 750 India/770 Pakistan
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: India moved three armored divisions to the border with West Pakistan. At
a UN Security Council meeting, the Pakistani delegate warned that there was danger
of renewed fighting in Kashmir if India did not accept the offer to negotiate.
Coding changes: End Date changed from April 27, 1962.
MID#1310
Dispute Number: 1310
Date(s): September 17, 1962 to November 4, 1962
Participants: 770 Pakistan/750 India
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: 1–25 deaths
Narrative: An exchange of fire broke out in Daikhata, India, when some Pakistanis
crossed into India to cut down jute crops. Later, heavy fighting broke out between
Indian and Pakistani troops. A Pakistani commander claimed 200 Indians had been
killed.
Coding changes: Start Date changed from September 18, 1962.
MID#1317
Dispute Number: 1317
Date(s): July 1963 to January 1964
Participants: 770 Pakistan/750 India
Outcome (and Settlement): Compromise (Negotiated)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: This dispute concerns the Dumabari Occupation. The contested piece of
territory comprised five villages—Putnigaon, Karkhana Putnigaon, Borputnigaon,
Lathitilla, and Dumabari—in Cachar-Sylhet at the Assam-East Pakistan border. The
Radcliffe Award sought to determine sovereignty over this area, but India and Paki-
stan held conflicting interpretations of the document. Pakistan held that the text and
the map coincided, while India argued that the text and the map contradicted and,
therefore, under conditions set forth in the Radcliffe decision, the text should pre-
vail. In 1959 India and Pakistan agreed to a military boundary that would eventually
be turned to civilian control. However, India charged that Pakistan had violated the
agreement several times starting in January 1962.
The militarized dispute began in July 1963 when Pakistani troops occupied part
of Dumabari. In August India proposed a “crash demarcation” of the border with the
surveyor’s general of both states, but the meetings did not end with an agreement—
the Pakistanis refused to even sign the minutes of the meetings, though the meetings
continued. Finally, on February 8, 1966, in accordance with the Tashkent Declaration,
the sector commanders met at Lathitilla and agreed to a working military boundary
for these five villages.
Coding changes: End day changed from Missing.