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With substantial military support from the United States, Ayub Khan feels ready by 1965 to test India's frontier outposts, initially in Sindh.

The first skirmish war is fought along undemarcated territory toward the western end of the Great Rann ("Salt Marsh") of Kachchh in the southeast in April 1965, and Pakistan's Patton tanks roll to what seems like an easy victory over India's Centurions.

The Commonwealth prime ministers and the UN quickly prevail upon both sides to agree to a cease-fire and withdrawal of forces to the prewar borders.

On the report of the United Nations secretary-general to the Security Council, the Rann of Kachchh dispute is referred to an international tribunal.

On the report of the United Nations secretary-general to the Security Council, the Rann of Kachchh dispute is referred to an international tribunal, which in 1968 awards about 10 percent of the border area to Pakistan and about 90 percent to India (the partition is effected the following year).

Pakistan intensifies the search for oil and natural gas in the 1980s and is rewarded with the discovery of a number of new oil fields in the Potwar Plateau region and in Sindh.

The oil fields near Badin, in Sindh, are particularly promising.