POWs. Notable Pakistani POWs Lt-Gen. Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, PA, Commander of Eastern Command. R.-Adm Mohammad Shariff, PN, later four-star admiral and Chairman joint chiefs in 1980. Maj-Gen. Rao Farman Ali, military adviser and chairman of Fauji Foundation in the 1970s. Air-Cdre Inamul Haque, PAF pilot, later three-star rank air force general and politician Maj-Gen. Mohammad Jamshed, PA Capt. Ahmad Zamir, CO PM in East, later appointed as Vice-Admiral in the Navy. Gp-Capt. Zulfiqar Ali Khan, PAF pilot and later four-star rank air force general. Lt-Cdr. Mansurul Haq, PN, four-star admiral in the Navy. Flt-Lt. PQ Mehdi– the PAF pilot who shot down, first POW, ascended as four-star rank air force general, Air Chief Marshal, and chief of air staff in 2000. Lt. Shahid Karimullah, PN, four-star admiral in the Pakistan Navy in 2005. Maj. K.M. Arif, PA, four-star rank army general and vice-chief of army staff 1987. Cdr. T.K. Khan, PN, four-star admiral in 1983. Maj. Siddique Salik, PA, later one-star rank army general and DG of Inter-Services Public Relations in 1988 Capt. Ikram Sehgal, first to escape the prison camp. Lt-Col. Raja Nadir Pervez, PM, politician. Cdr. Iqbal F. Quadir, PN, analyst and later ascended as vice-admiral and vice naval chief in 1983. Lt. Abdul Aziz Mirza, PN, later ascended as four-star admiral in 2002. Capt. Jamshed Gulzar Kiani, PA later ascended as three-star rank army general. Lt. T.M. Khattak, PN, three-star rank admiral in the Navy Lt-Cdr Shamoon Alam Khan, PN and ISI agent, diplomat and later three-star rank admiral in the Navy. Foreign relations impact The foreign reaction to India's taking of these 90,000 POWs varied from nation to nation. The United Nations supported India's move as they condemned the human rights violations the Pakistani Armed Forces inflicted upon Bangladeshis. As a result, the U.N. was quick to accept Bangladesh's independence. Bhutan became the second country after India to recognize Bangladesh's independence and did so with no issues. The United States however, was an ally of Pakistan both materially and politically, and as a result they did not support India's taking of 90,000 Pakistani POWs. The U.S. saw India's actions as threatening especially since India had just become a nuclear power and maintained close military ties with the U.S.S.R. The Soviet Union supported both the armies of Bangladesh and India and thus supported Bangladesh's unwaveringly. As a result of Soviet support, all nations that were part