Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Politics in India Since Independence: Challenges to and Restoration of the Congress System

Question:

The Tashkent Agreement was signed between

Options:

Lal Bahadur Shastri and Ayub khan

Lal Bahadur Shastri and Sheikh Mujib-ur-Rahman

Lal Bahadur Shastri and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Lal Bahadur Shastri and Zia-ul-Haq

Correct Answer:

Lal Bahadur Shastri and Ayub khan

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 1 - Lal Bahadur Shastri and Ayub khan

The Tashkent Agreement was signed between India and Pakistan. Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and the President of Pakistan Muhammad Ayub Khan signed it.

The Tashkent Agreement was a peace agreement signed in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in 1966, to resolve the Indo-Pakistani conflict that had arisen after the 1965 war between India and Pakistan. Shastri’s Prime Ministership came to an abrupt end on 10 January 1966, when he suddenly expired in Tashkent, then in the USSR and currently the capital of Uzbekistan. He was there to discuss and sign an agreement with Muhammad Ayub Khan, the then President of Pakistan, to end the war.