1965 war ceasefire by Pak embarrassed China: CIA

China had apparently committed its forces to some form of action along the Indian borders during the 1965 Indo-Pak war, and then Pakistani President Ayub Khans decision to abruptly end the war, embarrassed the Chinese, according to a secret CIA memo written in April 1968.

Washington, July 2 : China had apparently committed its forces to "some form of action" along the Indian borders during the 1965 Indo-Pak war, and then Pakistani President Ayub Khan's decision to abruptly end the war, embarrassed the Chinese, according to a secret CIA memo written in April 1968.

The memo, signed by the chief of CIA's special research staff, on April 4, 1968, claims that the Chinese leaders, for the first time since the establishment of the Peking regime, committed the People's Liberation Army to "some form of action within a specific time limit in support of a non-Communist quasi-ally."

"Their ultimatum of Sept 16, 1965 to New Delhi demanding that structures on the Sikkim-Tibet border must be dismantled within three days, was intended to humiliate the Indians and to ease pressure on hard-hit Pakistan forces," the Dawn quoted the memo as saying.

ANI