NEW DELHI, Saturday, Dec. 4—India declared yesterday that Pakistan had launched “full‐scale war” against her.

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, making the announcement in a speech at midnight, pledged that “the wanton and unprovoked aggression of Pakistan would be decisively and finally repelled.”

Text of Mrs. Gandhi's speech is printed on Page 10.

[Mrs. Gandhi told Parliament Saturday that Pakistan had declared war on India, but she did not say in what form any declaration had come, The Associated Press reported. The Indian Parliament unanimously approved the proclamation of a state of emergency.

[In Calcutta, the Press Trust of India reported that the Indian Air Force had carried out air strikes over Dacca, the capital of East Pakistan, and three other towns, Reuters reported.]

Indian spokesmen said that Pakistani jet fighter‐bombers attacked 12 Indian airfields, the outskirts of Agra, a concentration of military vehicles and other targets. They said that four Pakistani planes had been shot down.

Incursion Charged

The Indian spokesmen also said that Pakistani troops in “substantial” strength had attacked Indian territory near Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir State. Pakistani artillery began bombarding Indian positions in the Punjab and in Jammu, they added.

The Indian President, V. V. Giri, declared a state of national emergency. The Indian Parliament was summoned to a special session this morning to approve a Defense of India bill that would give the Government wide emergency powers.

There was no report yet of full‐scale Indian military retaliation aimed at the approximately 70,000 Pakistani troops in East Pakistan.

Such action, however, seemed inevitable. Indian leaders have made clear that their goal is the dismemberment of Pakistan and the creation of a “friendly” government in East Bengal.

Indian statements last night indicated that Pakistan had opened fighting on the western front where she was at less of a military disadvantage than in isolated East Pakistan.

According to Indian spokesmen, Pakistani F‐86 sabrejet planes bombed and strafed forward Indian air bases at Armitsar, Pathánkot, Srinagar, Avantipur, Uttarlal, Jodhpur, Ambala and Agra and “heavy military vehicles” near Sadik in the Punjab.

Some 300 to 400 yards of the airstrip at Amritsar were damaged, but the field is still serviceable, the Indians said.

The Pakistanis used Mirage‐III supersonic planes at Amritsar, the spokesmen said, and F‐86 Sabrejets at most other locations. The Indians described the Pakistanis as coming in fairly small formations, such as six Sabrejets at Srinagar and four Mirages at Amritsar. This was, however, consistent with the way air strikes were conducted in the 1965 war between the two countries.

Pakistani artillery also began shelling seven Indian positions along the heavily defended Punjab border, a spokesman said.

The only ground attack reported so far by New Delhi was a Pakistani attack across the Kashmir cease‐fire line—a legacy of an earlier war—near Poonch. But the coordinated air attacks on Indian airstrips was regarded as a prelude to major ground fighting.

The reported air attacks were said to have started at dusk and continued in various areas into the night as a full moon rose like a spotlight over the subcontinent.

Civil authorities in Agra, about 120 miles south of New Delhi, said that Pakistani planes bombed that area three times during the night and that one Pakistani plane was shot down.

Agra is the site of the Taj Mahal, a beautiful mausoleum built by a Mogul ruler and one of the world's architectural masterpieces. There was no report of damage to the Taj.

New Delhi was not attacked but, like most cities in North India, was blacked out.

India said that the Pakistani air strikes caused only minor damage. Air Marshal M. M. Engineer of the Western Air Command said the strikes had “not been able even to bruise, let alone hurt us.” India did not report the loss of any planes in the Pakistani attacks.

The Pakistani radio charged that Indian ground forces had launched an attack upon West Pakistan on nine fronts.

India and Pakistan, born in the bloody religious rioting that accompanied the partition of British India in 1947, have been enemies ever since.

Relations have grown increasingly bad in the last eight months as West Pakistani soldiers have attempted to crush by force the move toward autonomy or independence by Bengali‐speaking rebels in East Pakistan.

In recent weeks India dramatically increased her support of the insurgents in East Pakistan and sent units of her armed forces across the East Pakistan border in what she termed “defensive actions.”

In an order of the day issued immediately after the reported attacks by Pakistani planes, Air Marshal Engineer told his pilots, “We owe it to posterity that we destroy the evil war machine” of Pakistan.

Official Indian spokesman in New Delhi, however, were unable to say that Indian aircraft had scrambled to meet the attacking planes or had counter‐attacked fields in Pakistan. It seemed possible that Indian forces were caught by surprise.

The official spokesmen also made no claim that Indian ground forces had promptly reacted. In fact, they indicated the reverse.

Citing reports by the Pakistan radio and Hsinhua, the Chinese press agency, that India had launched an attack in the western sector, an official statement said that such charges “are totally false” and that “our troops are in defensive position and there has been no offensive or defensive action along the western border by the Indian troops so far.”

Later last night, however, the Indian Defense Minister, Jagjivan Ram, told newsmen that Indian forces would take “all necessary action.”

Mrs. Gandhi, speaking in slow, grave and measured tones to her radio audience, said that “soon after 5:30 P.M. on Dec. 3, Pakistan launched a fullscale war against us.”

“Today the war in Bangla Desh [Bengal Nation, the insurgent name for East Pakistan] has become a war on India,” she said. “We have no option but to put the country on a war footing.”

Mrs. Gandhi referred indirectly to the almost 10 million refugees from the turmoil in East Pakistan. The burden of the refugees was one reason India recently stepped up its political and military support for the East Bengali guerrillas.

She said that “since last March we have borne the heaviest of burdens and the greatest of pressures in a tremendous effort to ask the world to help in bringing about a peaceful solution and preventing the annihilation of an entire people whose only crime was to vote democratically.”

“But the world ignored basic causes and concerned itself only with certain repercussions,” she said, in an allusion to international suggestions that both India and Pakistan withdraw their forces from the borders of East Pakistan.

“The situation was bound to deteriorate,” she said. “We must be prepared for a long period of hardship and sacrifice.”

A Pakistan broadcast in the Urdu language said that “the enemy has finally aroused us to a jihad.” Jihad is the word for a Moslem holy war. Pakistan is an Islamic state. India is constitutionally a secular state, but is predominantly Hindu.

A major preoccupation for Indian officials within the next few days will be the question of how China, which diplomatically supports Pakistan, will react and whether Chinese troops on the northern border will take any action.

Indian officials tonight said that the Chinese press agency's announcement of an attack by India was made almost simultaneously with the Pakistan radio report.

A sizable part of the Indian Army is tied down on the Chinese border.

India and Pakistan have fought two major but limited conflicts in the past. Both ended in stalemate and cease‐fire — the 1947‐48 struggle for Kashmir and the 22‐day 1965 war in the Punjab and the Jammu area of Kashmir.

Early reports of the present conflict were sketchy and contradictory. The Indian spokesmen described shelling — but not a ground advance — by Pakistan along the Punjab border from Fazilka to Amritsar. This was a major battleground of the 1965 war.

In addition to the ground attack reported over the Kashmir cease‐fire line near Poonch, the Indians later last night also reported that the town of Jammu was under artillery fire. This town straddles the only road from the northern Punjab to the Vale of Kashmir and is the lifeline of Indian troops in northern Kashmir. There is no rail line.

Before the dramatic announcement of the western attacks, India had asserted that Pakistani F‐86 jets struck near the airfield at the Indian town of Agartala, close to the eastern border of East Pakistan.

According to officials, Indian troops crossed the border into East Pakistan at this point Thursday following a similar air raid and shelling. Pakistan denied the Indian version and said that the air strike was made on Indian troops within East Pakistan advancing toward the Pakistani railroad town of Akhura.