1965 India - Pakistan War - 1st to 23rd, September

9 April 1965 - Pakistani forces in brigade strength attacked the CRPF manned Sardar post near the old ruined Fort of Kanjarkot.

29 April - Simple ceasefire declared.

1 September 1965 - Pakistan attacked Indian borders in Chamb area.
2 September 1965 - Pakistan Army entered Indian territory up to a depth of 5 miles.
3 September 1965 - Addtional brigades moved to defend Akhnoor against Pakistan army attack.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-today-newsmakers-of-1960s-indian-soldier/1/164433.html

4 September 1965 - ECC met twice. Reply to U-Thant UNO General Secretary fnalized. 2 Pak aircraft were shot down.
1965 War Inside Story - Diary of Y.B. Chavan, page 28
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ymYCJQjEGBUC&pg=PA28#v=onepage&q&f=false

6 September 1965 - India entered into counterattack on 6 September
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/6/newsid_3632000/3632092.stm


12 September
Visit of U-Thant to Delhi
Battle for Chhawinda
Attack on Khem Karan - India suffered losses of men in small attacks - 4 Sikh, 2 Mahar Troops lost good number of men.

Ceasefire was declared on 23 September



Sources:

The 1965 Indo Pakistan War.
From Book, Transition to Triumph
http://indiannavy.nic.in/book/1965-indo-pakistan-war


1965 War, the Inside Story: Defence Minister Y.B. Chavan's Diary of India-Pakistan War
R. D. Pradhan, Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan
Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 01-Jan-2007 - India - 141 pages
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ymYCJQjEGBUC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Conflict Between India and Pakistan - Peter Lyon
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=vLwOck15eboC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Some Comments on War by Major General (Retd) Niranjan Prasad
http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/20000916/ian16060.html


From Gibraltar to Grand Slam . A narrative by Inder Malhotra
http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/from-gibraltar-to-grand-slam/1042727/

Review of Farooq Bajwa's Book - From Kutch to Tashkent The Indo Pakistan War of 1965 in Frontline
http://www.frontline.in/books/battlefields-and-history/article5429578.ece

Indian Air Force has to reason to celebrate September 5, 1965.
http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/ajai-shukla-the-day-nothing-happened-114090101482_1.html

Role of Madras Regiment in 1965 War
http://madrasregiment.org/IndoPak1965-test.htm

Air Force Day Backgrounder - PIB News Item - 2001
http://pib.nic.in/feature/feyr2001/foct2001/f041020012.html


Updated  11 Sep 2016,  4 September 2014