Pakistan, Oct. 11 -- The seventeen-day war in 1965 caused thousands of casualties on both sides and witnessed the largest engagement of armoured vehicles and the largest tank battle since World War II. The hostilities between the two countries ended after a ceasefire was declared following diplomatic intervention by the Soviet Union and USA.

On September 22, 1965Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's addressed the United Nation's Security Council:

We have always known that India is determined to annihilate Pakistan. Jammu and Kashmir was not now and had never been an integral part of India. The people of Jammu and Kashmir are part of the people of Pakistan in blood, in flesh, in life, in culture, in geography, in history. in every form. I swear, "We wil...