Instrument of surrender

INSTRUMENT OF SURRENDER

The PAKISTAN Easter Command agree to surrender all PAKISTAN Armed Forces in Bangladesh to

Lieutenant-General JAGJIT SINGH AURORA, General Officer Commanding in Chief of the India and Bangladesh forces in the Eastern Theatre. This surrender includes all PAKISTAN land, air and naval forces as also all para – military forces and civil armed forces. These forces will lay down their arms and surrender at the places where they are currently located to the nearnest regular troops under the command of Lieutenant-General JAGJIT SINGH AURORA.

The PAKISTAN Eastern Command shall come under orders of Lieutenant-General JAGJIT SINGH AURORA as soon as this instrument has been signed. Disobedience of order will be regarded as a breach of the surrender terns and will be dealt with in accordance with the accepted laws and usages of war. The decision of Lieutenant-General JAGJIT SINGH AURORA will be final, should any doubt arise as to the meaning of interpretation of the surrender terms.

Lieutenant-General JAGJIT SINGH AURORA gives a solemn assurance that personnel who surrender shall be treated with dignity and respect that soldiers are entitled to in accordance with provisions of the GENEVA convention and guarantees the safety and well – being of all PAKISTAN military and para – military forces who surrender. Protection will be provided to foreign nations, ethnic minorities and personal of West PAKISTAN origin by the forces under the command of Lieutenant-General JAGJIT SINGH AURORA

    ( JAGJIT SINGH AURORA )                                                                                (AMIR ABDULLAH KNAN NIAZI)

         Lieutenant-General                                                                                                Lieutenant-General

  General Officer Commanding                                                                 Martial Law Administrator Zone B and

In chief India and Bangladesh forces                                                            Commander Eastern Command

   In the Eastern Command Treated                                                                                (Pakistan)

             16 December, 1971                                                                                       16 December, 1971