On This Day: 10th January
1966 – The Tashkent Declaration was signed between India and Pakistan.
India and Pakistan signed the Tashkent Declaration on 10 January 1966. It was a peace agreement between the two nations to bring the 1965 Indo-Pak war to an end. A meeting was held from 4-10 January 1966 in Tashkent in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic in Soviet Union (now Uzbekistan). Premier Aleksey Kosygin represented the Soviets and the discussion was moderated between the Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and the Pakistani President Muhammad Ayub Khan. Post the declaration it was decided that neither would meddle in the others’ internal affairs and that economic and diplomatic relations would improve.