- Title: INDIA: PAKISTANI PRISONERS TAKEN DURING BORDER FIGHTING
- Date: 1st September 1965
- Summary: PAKISTANI PRISONERS. Initials PBS/V/AW/K Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 16th September 1965 13:00
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- Location: NEAR DELHI, INDIA
- Country: India
- Reuters ID: LVA1TKW47D839VGFPHB1QZLYE30H
- Story Text: INDIAN TROOPS ARE REPORTED TO HAVE CAPTURED FOURTEEN PAKISTANI SOLDIERS DURING A MOPPING UP OPERATION IN MOUNTAINOUS COUNTRY OF THE CEASEFIRE LINE AT URI.
AN INDIAN ARMY SPOKESMAN SAID THE TROOPS WERE CAPTURED LAST THURSDAY.HE SAID THE PAKISTANI TROOPS WERE CONCENTRATING READY TO CROSS TO THE INDIAN SIDE OF THE CEASEFIRE LINE IN AN AREA WHICH HAS BECOME KNOWN AS 'THE BULGE'.
THE CAPTURED SOLDIERS HAVE BEEN INTERNED IN A COMPOUND.THE EXACT LOCALITY OF THE CAMP HAS NOT BEEN GIVEN, BUT IS SAID BY INDIAN OFFICIALS TO MERELY BE "SOMEWHERE NEAR DELHI".ANOTHER 18 PAKISTANIS ARE REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN CAPTURED DURING THE PAST 24 HOURS IN FIGHTING IN KASHMIR.
SO FAR, ACCORDING TO INDIAN REPORTS, THE BODIES OF SIXTY TWO PAKISTANI TROOPS HAVE BEEN FOUND IN POSITIONS CAPTURED BY INDIAN SOLDIERS LAST WEEK.INDIAN CASUALTIES HAVE BEEN GIVEN AS FOURTEEN, BUT IT HAS NOT BEEN SPECIFIED HOW MANY OF THESE WERE KILLED.
THE PAKISTANI PRISONERS APPEAR TO BE WELL TREATED.ThEY ARE SAID TO BE GIVEN PLENTY OF EXERCISE AND FOOD.
THE LATEST REPORTS FROM THE AREA OF FIGHTING KASHMIR SAYS THAT TROOPS BACKED BY PAKISTANI FORCES HAVE CAPTURED TWO INDIAN POSITIONS ON THE CEASEFIRE LINE.
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