The glossy wooden table on which the Simla Agreement was signed between Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1972 is kept in the Kirti Hall of the Himachal Pradesh Raj Bhavan.
A day after Pakistan suspended the 1972 Simla Agreement, the country’s flag was seen missing on the historic table at the Himachal Pradesh Raj Bhavan on which the agreement was signed.
The glossy wooden table on which the agreement was signed is kept in the Kirti Hall of the Himachal Pradesh Raj Bhavan on an elevated red-coloured platform cordoned off with brass railings with a plate which reads — “Simla Agreement was signed here on 3-7-1972”.
A photograph of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto signing the agreement and former PM Indira Gandhi sitting beside him is kept on the table, while several other photographs of the India-Pakistan Summit of 1972 hang on the wall in the background.
The Pakistani flag is not present on the iconic table anymore, reported PTI, citing Raj Bhavan officials. However, it is yet to be known if the Pakistani flag was removed or not.
Simla Agreement
The pact was signed at a time when India was in full command, and had agreed to release 90,000 prisoners of war and returning 13,000 square km of land captured by India during the 1971 war, which resulted in the creation of Bangladesh.