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MID#1302
Dispute Number: 1302
Date(s): March 11, 1958 to August 26, 1959
Participants: 770 Pakistan/750 India
Outcome (and Settlement): Compromise (Negotiated)
Fatalities: 26–100 deaths
Narrative: India and Pakistan had contested the borders at Patharia Forest Reserve
and the Kushiyara River along the border with East Pakistan since the Radcliffe
Award in 1947. Indeed, the two had submitted their claims to an international tribunal
in 1950, but the dispute remained unresolved. On November 10, 1958, Pakistanis
raided a border village in Tripura and killed two Indians. Four additional incidents
occurred through January in the Khasi-Jaintia Hills and Patharia Forest. Fighting
spread to Karimganj between February 6 until March 8, 1959, when a ceasefire took
effect. Fighting recurred from March 25 until a new ceasefire took effect on April
- Fighting resumed in June and continued in July. On July 28, India and Pakistan
entered a new ceasefire agreement, but troops from both sides fought for three more
days starting July 31, when another ceasefire took effect on August 2. Pakistan and
India accused each other of renewing the fight on August 6, but another ceasefire took
effect on August 26. India and Pakistan finally signed a border treaty on October 23,
but the border issues were never considered settled.
Coding changes: End Date changed from August 26, 1958.
MID#2869
Dispute Number: 2869
Date(s): April 10, 1959 to April 12, 1959
Participants: 750 India/770 Pakistan
Outcome (and Settlement): Released (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: Pakistan shot down an Indian bomber after it violated Pakistani airspace.
The pilots survived and were returned to India soon after.
MID#2885
Dispute Number: 2885
Date(s): December 15, 1960 to April 13, 1961
Participants: 770 Pakistan/750 India
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: India accused Pakistan of eight airspace violations.
MID#2629
Dispute Number: 2629
Date(s): January 6, 1962