The end of the 1965 Indo-Pakistani war: exhaustion or dead-lock?, by Christiane Tirimagni-Hurtig The end of the 1965 Indo-Pakistani war appears to be perfectly applicable to the analytic model proposed by J.-P. Derriennic, for the salient features of the end of this conflict are: the timing of the cease-fire (shortly before the eventual internationalisation of the conflict) - the circumstances in which both the cease-fire and the subsequent Tashkent settlement were established (through intervention by the Great Powers without clear victory having been obtained) - the substitution of Soviet mediation for the bilateral type of settlement envisaged by the Security Council. In reality, though, the timing of the cease-fire can hardly give rise t...