evidence: SUBJECT: INDIAN PRIME MINISTER INDIRA GANDHI'S BRIEFING [text not declassified] ON THE INDO-PAKISTAN WAR [...] 1. ON 10 DECEMBER 1971 INDIAN PRIME MINISTER INDIRA GANDHI TOLD [text not declassified] THAT ACCEPTANCE OF THE UNITED NATIONS CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION AFTER THE LIBERATION OF BANGLADESH MIGHT MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO AVOID FURTHER COMPLICATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES AND MIGHT ALSO RULE OUT THE CURRENT POSSIBILITY OF CHIENSE INTERVENTION IN LADAKH. DEFENCE MINISTER JAGJIVAN RAM AND CERTAIN MILITARY LEADERS, HOWEVER, ARE OPPOSED TO ACCEPTING THE RESOLUTION BEFORE CERTAIN UNSPECIFIED AREAS IN SOUTHERN AZAD KASHMIR ARE LIBERATED AND BEFORE THE WAR MECHANISM OF PAKISTAN IS DESTROYED. MRS. GANDHI ADDED THAT FOR THE MOMENT INDIA WOULD NOT CATEGORICALLY REJECT THE UN CEASEFIRE PROPOSAL; IT WILL ACCEPT THE PROPOSAL AFTER THE AWAMI LEAGUE REGIME IS INSTALLED IN DACCA. [text not declassified] [...] 3. AFTER THE LIBERATION OF BANGLADESH, THE PRIME MINISTER SAID, PAKISTAN MIGHT NOT ACCEPT THE CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION BUT MIGHT DECIDE TO CONTINUE THE WAR IN THE WEST TO AVENGE THE LOSS OF BANGLADESH. PAKISTANI STRATEGY MIGHT BE TO BREAK THROUGH THE CHHAMB AREA, WITH CHINESE SUPPORT IN THE LADAKH REGION, IN A BID TO CUT OFF THE KASHMIR VALLEY.