Sheikh Mujib’s Six-Point Programme

The meeting in Lahore of Pakistan’s political leaders from both the East and the West parts of the country had been intended to allow for discussion of the Tashkent Declaration, which was signed on 10th January, 1966, to end the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 over the rights and responsibilities of each nation in Kashmir. Although the Soviet-sponsored peace agreement was regarded as a great success by the international community, that was not how it was seen at home. In the first place, the day after the Declaration was signed, Indian Prime Minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri died in unexplained circumstances in Uzbekistan. The Indian government has never made any statement on his death. On the contrary, it has avoided saying anything at all about it and has refused to conduct an investigation, despite Shastri’s widow blaming her husband’s death on poisoning.