Indian forces have also seized 30 square miles of the Kemkarran enclave adjacent to Ferozepore, on the Punjab border. In addition, India has taken over 26 strategic Pakistan posts in the vicinity of Kargil on the north¬eastern sector of the Kashmir cease-fire line. These important posts dominate the main communication route to Leh and while Mrs. Gandhi might withdraw her troops from the other occupied sectors, she might be reluctant to restore the posts to the Pakistan Army.

A humiliated Pakistan will be in no position to bargain but Mrs. Gandhi indicated in her moment of triumph today that she will act with magnanimity when the two countries sit down to settle scores over the conference table. Addressing both Houses of Parliament, she said: “ We have no enmity towards the people of Pakistan and we would like to fashion our relations with them on the basis of friendship and understanding. Let them live as masters in their own house and devote their energies to the removal of poverty and inequality in their own country.”

With a task force of the United States Seventh Fleet apparently still sailing towards an already defused crisis in Bangladesh, the Bay of Bengal seems likely to prove as big a disaster as the Bay of Pigs in terms of American prestige in South Asia. Large groups of demonstrators continued to parade in front of the American Embassy today and other Indians were chuckling in the streets of Delhi, speculating on what Mr. Nixon would do when the naval task force reaches India.