March 19

The India–Bangladesh Pact of Friendship, Cooperation, and Peace was a 25-year treaty signed on March 19, 1972, between India and the newly founded state of Bangladesh. The pact was also known as the Indira–Mujib Treaty, after its signatories, India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. During the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, India supplied considerable aid, training, and shelter to the exiled government of Bangladesh and the Bengali nationalist Mukti Bahini guerrilla army battling the Pakistani Army. During 1971, between 8 and 10 million migrants streamed into India, heightening tensions between India and Pakistan.
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