Delhi Pact

Delhi Pact

▪ India-Pakistan [1950]
also called  Nehru-Liaquat Pact 

      pact made on April 8, 1950, following the escalation of tension between India and Pakistan in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) after economic relations between the two countries had been severed in December 1949. An estimated one million people—Hindus from East Pakistan and Muslims from West Bengal—crossed the borders during 1950.

      In spite of the opposition of his colleague Vallabhbhai Patel (Patel, Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai), Jawaharlal Nehru (Nehru, Jawaharlal), prime minister of India, concluded a pact with Liaquat Ali Khan, prime minister of Pakistan, whereby refugees were allowed to return unmolested to dispose of their property, abducted women and looted property were to be returned, forced conversions were unrecognized, and minority rights were confirmed. Minority commissions were established to implement these terms, and confidence was in fact restored for a time; however, in the months following the pact, more than a million additional refugees migrated to West Bengal. The continuing struggle over Kashmir also strained relations between the two countries.

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