<prompt> Nyorera kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Pakutanga kwa1971, sarudzo dzakakanganiswa muPakistan dzakatungamirira Pakistan yekumabvazuva yenguva iyoyo kuzivisa rusununguko seBangladesh. Kudzvinyirira nechisimba zveuto rePakistan zvakaita kuti vapoteri vane mamiriyoni 10 vayambuke muganhu vachienda kuIndia mumwedzi yaitevera. Pakupedzisira muna December 1971, Gandhi akapindira zvakananga mukukakavadzana  <response>: kusunungura Bangladesh. India yakabuda ichikunda muhondo yakazotevera ndokuva simba guru reSouth Asia. India yakanga yasaina chibvumirano neSoviet Union ichivimbisa kubetserana kana kwaitika hondo, nepo Pakistan yakagamuchira tsigiro inoshingaira kubva kuUnited States mukati mokurwisana. Purezidhendi weU.S. Richard Nixon akanga asingadi Gandhi somunhu oga, achitaura nezvake semuroyi uye mbeva yakangwara mukukurukurirana kwake kwomunhu oga noMunyori weHurumende Henry Kissinger. Nixon gare gare akanyora nezvehondo kuti: Gandhi akanyengedza America. Akatinyengedza... mukadzi uyu akatinyengedza. Ukama neU.S. hwakava kure sezvo Gandhi akavandudza ukama hwepedyo neSoviet Union pashure pehondo. Iyoyo yokupedzisira yakakura kuva shamwari huru zvikurusa yeIndia mukutengeserana uye mupi wayo mukuru zvikurusa wezvombo nokuda kwechikamu chikuru choutungamiriri hwaGandhi. Chimiro chitsva cheIndia chokutonga sezvakataurwa muIndira Doctrine chakatungamirira kukuedza kuunza nyika dzeHimalaya pasi penzvimbo yeIndia yokupesvedzera. Nepal neBhutan zvakaramba zvakabatana neIndia, nepo muna 1975, pashure pemakore okuunganidza rutsigiro, Gandhi akabatanidza Sikkim muIndia, pashure perondedzero umo ruzhinji rwevanhu veSikkim rwakavhotera kubatana neIndia. Ikoku kwakarambwa sechiito chinonyangadza neChina. 