Surrender by Pakistan in Indo-Pak War 1971

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General Niazi ,Pakistan Army signing surrender document in the presence of Lt।General Jagjit Singh Arora.





The Instrument of Surrender was signed at Ramna Race course in Dhaka at 16:31 IST on December 16, 1971, by Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Arora, General Officer Commanding in Chief of Eastern Command of the Indian Army and Lieutenant General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, Commander of Pakistani forces in Bangladesh, as the formal act of surrender of all Pakistani forces in erstwhile East Pakistan। Also present during the ceremony were Lieutenant General JFR Jacob, Chief of Staff of the Eastern Command and architect of the plan for the capture of Bangladesh, and, the commanders of Indian Naval and Air Forces in the Eastern Theatre।

The signing of the document ended the war, and led to the formation of Bangladesh. The name of the new country, Bangla Desh (later reduced to a single word), was used in the instrument of surrender, which declared: "The Pakistan Eastern Command agree to surrender all Pakistan armed forces in Bangla desh to Lieutenant-General Jagjit Singh Aurora, General Officer Commanding in Chief of the Indian and BANGLA DESH forces in the Eastern Theatre."

Aurora accepted the Surrender without a word, while the crowd on the race course started shouting anti-Niazi and anti-Pakistan slogans and abuses।Niazi along with a sizeable number of Pakistani soldiers were taken prisoner (upwards of 90,000)


This was the largest number of POW's since World War II and included some government officials।