NEW DELHI – When the guns fell silent after the 1971 war, the subcontinent’s most consequential settlement was negotiated not on a battlefield but in a hill town. The Shimla Agreement, signed on 2 July 1972 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Pakistani President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, is too often remembered only for the return of prisoners of war and captured territory. Its more durable achievement was structural. The pact moved the Jammu and Kas…
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