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Liaquat–Nehru Pact

1950 India–Pakistan treaty on minorities

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The treaty was signed in New Delhi by the Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru and the Prime Minister of Pakistan Liaquat Ali Khan on April 8, 1950. The treaty was the outcome of six days of talks sought to guarantee the rights of minorities in both countries after the Partition of India and to avert another war between them.

This pact also introduced a visa system for refugees and free passage of refugees across the border was restricted.

Minority commissions were set up in both countries. More than one million refugees migrated from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) to West Bengal in India.

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