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Stand Down Order (1947)

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215: 47:, ordered Pakistani Army to march into Kashmir following the Indian air lift of troops for its defence. At Auchinleck's instance, Jinnah was forced to rescind his order. In subsequent months, the British government watered down the strength of the order, and General 51:, the Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistani Army, defied it. Three brigades of the Pakistani Army were fighting in Kashmir in May 1948, as reported by Pakistan's foreign minister, Sir 43:
of India and Pakistan, all the British officers on both sides should immediately stand down. The order was never invoked. However, it was raised when the Pakistani Governor General,
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military forces, in 1947. It directed that, in the event of a war between the newly independent
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general order
Claude Auchinleck
Indian
Pakistani
dominions
Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Douglas Gracey
Zafrullah Khan
United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan
"The Defiant Douglas"
doi
10.3366/brw.2014.0150
The Kashmir Conflict: From Empire to the Cold War, 1945-66
ISBN
978-1-317-22525-6
Kashmir, 1945–66: From Empire to the Cold War
Dasgupta, C.
War and Diplomacy in Kashmir, 1947-48
ISBN
978-81-321-1795-7
The Indian Army and the End of the Raj
ISBN
978-0-521-89975-8
Making the new Commonwealth
ISBN
978-0-19-820112-0
Stub icon
British Indian Army
stub
expanding it

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