ABSTRACT
Indo-Pakistani ministerial talks on Kashmir held in Rawalpindi towards the end of December 1962 were the product of much tenacious diplomacy by US and UK envoys to both Nehru and Ayub Khan. A linkage between US military assistance to India and progress on the Kashmir question was reflected in the National Security Council’s decision to call its South Asia subcommittee the ‘Subcommittee on Military Aid to India, and Kashmir’. The group filed a status report to the NSC early in January. It dealt with technical, even tactical, aspects of US efforts in the subcontinent. The parties stated that they sought a political settlement of the Kashmir issue without prejudice to their respective basic positions. They agreed to examine proposals for an ‘honorable, equitable and final boundary settlement’ on the basis that both India and Pakistan sought delineation of the international boundary in Jammu & Kashmir.
