Delhi Agreement
| Transfer of Population Under the Terms of the Delhi Agreement | |
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Flags of India and Pakistan being lowered at the Wagah Border in Punjab
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| Type | Population transfer |
| Context | Cold war |
| Drafted | 17 April 1973 |
| Signed | 9 April 1973 |
| Location | New Delhi, India |
| Sealed | 19 September 1973 |
| Effective | 8 August 1973 |
| Condition | Ratification by both parties |
| Expiration | 28 August 1974 |
| Expiry | 1 July 1974 |
| Mediators | Interior ministries of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh |
| Negotiators | Foreign ministries of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh |
| Signatories |
Swaran Singh (Minister of External Affairs) Aziz Ahmed (Foreign Minister of Pakistan) Kamal Hossain (Foreign Minister of Bangladesh) |
| Parties |
 India Pakistan Bangladesh
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| Ratifiers | Parliaments of India and Pakistan |
| Depositary |
Indira Gandhi Prime Minister of India Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Prime Minister of Pakistan |
| Depositaries | |
| Languages | English |
The Delhi Agreement was a agreement signed between India, Pakistan and Bangladesh on 28 August 1973; and ratified only by India and Pakistan. It allowed the repatriation of prisoners of war and interned officials held in the three countries after the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. The agreement has been criticised for Pakistan's failure to repatriate Urdu-speakers in Bangladesh and not holding to account 195 senior military officials accused of war crimes and genocide.
The treaty was signed by the foreign ministers of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh in New Delhi after the Simla Agreement.
During the 1971 Bangladesh War, thousands of Bengali bureaucrats and military personnel were interned in West Pakistan along with their families by the Pakistani Government. In Bangladesh, many in the Urdu-speaking community wished to relocate to Pakistan. India held several thousand Pakistani prisoners of war after the Surrender of Pakistan on 16 December 1971, including 195 military officers accused of orchestrating the 1971 Bangladesh genocide.
President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto threatened to put interned Bengali officials on trial if Bangladesh proceeded with plans to indict alleged Pakistani war criminals.
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