Later overwhelming public anger over Pakistan's defeat by Bangladeshi rebels and the Indian Army, and the division of Pakistan into two parts boiled into street demonstrations throughout West Pakistan.

This culminated in the USSR's defeat and withdrawal in 1989, but also led to the proliferation of millions of refugees, with heroin and weaponry into Pakistan's frontier province.

Pakistan's defeat at the Battle of Asal Uttar hastened the end of the conflict.

These highly publicised enquiries were prompted by the surprise defeat of Pakistan in the Cup by Ireland and the subsequent murder investigation into the sudden death, straight after the match, of Pakistan's head coach Bob Woolmer.

After Pakistan's defeat in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, the two nations signed the Simla Agreement promising not to engage in armed conflict with respect to that boundary.

After Pakistan's defeat against New Zealand at UAE in 2009's ODI series and resignation of Younis Khan from the captaincy, changes were made in the team, with Waqar Younis being installed as the coach of Pakistan's cricket team.

Pirzada and Tikka Khan ) who met with Pakistani President Yahya Khan on 20 February 1971 to plan " Operation Searchlight "; he was appointed Chief of National Security in December, 1971 ( after Pakistan's defeat at combined hands of Mukti Bahini and India ) by Pakistan's new Prime Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

Australia toured Pakistan at the end of 1959 for a three Test series which they won 2-0, Pakistan's first series defeat at home.

He did not play any significant role in Pakistan's proxy war in the 1979 – 89 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

* United States reschedules Pakistan's debt, and drops sanctions against Pakistan in return for its help with the " war on terror.

His objective was to prevent a war and safeguard Pakistan's interests, though he feared an Indian invasion of West Pakistan that would lead to Indian domination of the sub-continent and strengthen the position of the Soviet Union.

Yahya became the highest-ranking casualty of the war: to forestall further unrest, on December 20, 1971 he handed over power to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, age 43, the ambitious leader of West Pakistan's powerful People's Party.

The theft of large sums of aid spurred Pakistan's economic growth, but along with the war in general had devastating side effects for that country.

With news of Pakistan planning to launch a nuclear attack in the face of a loss in the war with India, Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was summoned to the US by Bill Clinton and warned against any such mis-adventure.

This war started following Pakistan's Operation Gibraltar, which was designed to infiltrate forces into Jammu and Kashmir to precipitate an insurgency against rule by India.

One of her notable military authorizations was military action in Jalalabad of Soviet Afghanistan in retaliation for the Soviet Union's long unconditional support of India, a proxy war in Pakistan, and Pakistan's loss in the 1965 and 1971 wars.

Petra, for her part, arranges a different plan, involving stripping India's garrisons along her borders with Pakistan — something she expects will never happen, until Achilles takes her to a meeting with Pakistan's prime minister, in which he encourages the two great Indian nations to declare peace on each other and war with their other neighbors.

* Project-706 ( with Chagai-I and Chagai-II ) — an early Pakistan's secret code name for developing the nuclear weapons programme during Cold war.

Inside Stories from the Partition to the Present ", Nayar noted that " Bhutto's releasing of Mujib did not mean anything to Pakistan's policy as in if there was no liberation war.

During the initial stages of the war, Pakistan blamed the fighting entirely on independent Kashmiri insurgents, but documents left behind by casualties and later statements by Pakistan's Prime Minister and Chief of Army Staff showed involvement of Pakistani paramilitary forces, led by General Ashraf Rashid.

Seven truths about Afghans ignored by U. S .: ( 1 ) only Pashtuns rule durably ( 47 ); ( 2 ) the U. S. backed Westernized Afghans, not the " Muslim tribal xenophobes " who matter ( 48-49 ); ( 3 ) Afghans can't be controlled by money ( 49-51 ); ( 4 ) strong central governments, like the one Karzai is seeking, cause war in Afghanistan ( 52 ); ( 5 ) Afghanistan is a cauldron of international tensions ( 53-54 ); ( 6 ) Pakistan's national security depends on an Islamist, Pashtun-dominated régime ( 54-56 ); ( 7 ) an Islamic régime in Kabul is inevitable ( 56-57 ).

During the initial stages of the war, Pakistan blamed the fighting entirely on independent Kashmiri insurgents, but documents left behind by casualties and later statements by Pakistan's Prime Minister and Chief of Army Staff showed involvement of Pakistani paramilitary forces, led by General Ashraf Rashid.

In another letter on 10 August 2000, Hicks wrote from Kashmir claiming to have been a guest of Pakistan's army for two weeks at the front in the " controlled war " with India:

He negotiated the 1971 Indo-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation and was a principal architect of India's military intervention in neighboring East Pakistan's civil war, which led to the creation of independent Bangladesh.

An agreement on Pakistan's collaboration in the new " war on terror " was negotiated between Mahmood and Armitage.

Pakistan's war with India over the territory had ended in a ceasefire in 1948 that left northwestern Kashmir in Pakistani hands, and the rest with India.

He had declared to start attacking Pakistan if Pakistan stopped backing jihadis in Jammu and Kashmir who, he claimed, were fighting Pakistan's war.

Pakistan's increasing vulnerability and widespread international outrage against the military crackdown eventually created a situation that led to war between Pakistan and India.

This war proved disastrous and culminated in Pakistan's armed forces being defeated in East Pakistan and the creation of the new state of Bangladesh.

Invading Shakargarh bulge was one of the most crucial components of Pakistan's war strategy in the western sector.

In July 2011, Burton was revealed by an FBI investigation to have received tainted election funds ultimately traced to the military intelligence services of Pakistan, apparently as a quid pro quo for " supporting to Pakistan's position on Kashmir ".

" The Dubai government ordered Tecom to shut down the popular independent Pakistani news channels Geo News and ARY One World on the demand of Pakistan's military regime led by General Pervez Musharraf.

In 1982, Jamali chaired Pakistan's delegation to the Islamic Agricultural Ministers Conference in Ankara, Turkey, and also led a 21-member delegation of the Parliament to the United States in 1982.

However, Bhutto's nationalisation of much of Pakistan's fledgling industries, healthcare, and educational institutions led to economic stagnation.

He addressed the United Nations Sixth Committee on Aggression on 25 October 1957 and led Pakistan's delegation to the first United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea in 1958.

The party quickly gained massive popular support in East Bengal, later named East Pakistan, and eventually led the forces of Bengali nationalism in the struggle against West Pakistan's military and political establishment.

However, in what became known as Pakistan's Charge of the Light Brigade, a counterattack led by 13th Lancers and 31st Cavalry was mauled by the Indian 54th Division around Battle of Barapind.

Pakistan's problems in finding a reliable opening pair have led to Malik being used as an opener in Test and ODI matches.

Several galleries highlight the building sectional conflict between West Pakistan and Bangladesh ( then East Pakistan ), the rise of Bengali nationalist leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the events of 1971, when the postponement by Pakistan's military ruler Gen. Yahya Khan of the convening of the National Assembly of Pakistan, in which Sheikh Mujib's Awami League had won a majority, led to the call for the independence of Bangladesh.

A respected politician in his later years, he contributed to Pakistan's third constitution, led protests for the restoration of democracy in the 1960s and 1980s.

He then led negotiations with Bhutto for the passage, in August 1973, of Pakistan's only unanimous constitution.