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Pakistan says a new round of peace talks with Afghanistan is underway in China : NPR

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Pakistan confirmed it was holding peace talks with Afghanistan's Taliban government in China, where Beijing is trying to broker a lasting ceasefire after weeks of conflict.

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Red China, Pakistan Sign Border Treaty

boundary and. in some areas occupied the ground, the spokesman said. Under the agreement. he said. China win control 2s050 square miles Of largely mountainous and I'M economic territory, while PAX istan gets 1850 square miles Of fertile land. simultaneously a New China News Agency dispatch broad cast from Peking disclosed AZ ghanistan is next on the Chi nese list. The dispatch said Red China and Afghanistan have agreed to begin negotiations on a boundary treaty. 1t did not specify when. Sandwiched between Pakistan and the Soviet Union, a mar row strip Of Afghanistan touches the border of China's Sinkiang Province.

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Project 596

Project 596 was the first nuclear weapons test conducted by the People's Republic of China, detonated on 16 October 1964, at the Lop Nur test site. It had a yield of 22 kilotons, comparable to the Soviet Union's first nuclear bomb RDS-1 in 1949 and the American Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

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India–Pakistan war of 1965 – Involvement of other nations

The United States and the United Kingdom have been the principal suppliers of military matériel to India and Pakistan since 1947. While India had pursued a policy of nominal non-alignment, Pakistan was a member of both CENTO and SEATO and an ally of the West in its struggle against communism. Well before the conflict began, however, Britain and the United States had suspected Pakistan of joining both alliances out of opportunism to acquire advanced weapons for a war against India.

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Tashkent Declaration

The Tashkent Declaration was signed between India and Pakistan on 10 January 1966 to resolve the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. Peace was achieved on 23 September through interventions by the Soviet Union and the United States, both of which pushed the two warring countries towards a ceasefire in an attempt to avoid any escalation that could draw in other powers.

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