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Delhi Agreement

Type Population transfer (Transfer of Population Under the Terms of the Delhi Agreement)

Context Cold war


Drafted 17 April 1973
Signed 9 April 1973; 48 years ago
Location New Delhi, India
Sealed/closed 19 September 1973
Effective 8 August 1973
Condition Ratification by both parties
Expiration 28 August 1974
But ended on 1 July 1974
Mediators Interior ministries of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

Negotiators Foreign ministries of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

Signatories Swaran Singh


(Minister of External Affairs)
Aziz Ahmed
(Foreign Minister of Pakistan)
Kamal Hossain
(Foreign Minister of Bangladesh)
Parties  India + Pakistan + Bangladesh

Ratifiers Parliaments of India and Pakistan


Depositary Indira Gandhi
Prime Minister of India
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Prime Minister of Pakistan

Depositaries Government of India


Government of Pakistan
Languages English

119. In April 1974 Bangladesh agreed to release 195 held up


POWs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi_Agreement
fter Tashkent in 1966, saw Bhutto emerge as the dominant voice in West Pakistan
opposing military authoritarianism of which he was once a part.

Tashkent > Ayub Kahn

See kashmir

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