Operation Gibraltar
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Operation Gibraltar was the codename of a military operation planned and executed by the Pakistan Army in the territory of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in August 1965. The operation's strateg
A declassified US State Department telegram that confirms the existence of hundreds of infiltrators in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto NPk HPk was a Pakistani barrister, and statesman who served as the fourth president of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973, and as the ninth prime minister of Pakistan from 1973 until his o
Operation Gibraltar
…conceived and prepared as early as the 1950s; however it seemed appropriate to push this plan forward given the scenario. Backed by then foreign minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and others, the aim was an "attack by infiltration" by a specially trained irregular force of some 40,000 men, highly motivated and well armed. It was…
Official portrait, c. 1971
Foreign Minister Bhutto meets West German officials in Bonn, 1965
Meeting between Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and John F. Kennedy
Bhutto with Prince Philip of the United Kingdom at the Shalimar Gardens in Lahore, 1959