1966
- January 3: Ayub and Shastri meet in Tashkent and reach agreement with Soviet Union playing honest broker.
- January 10: The Tashkent Declaration does not deal with Kashmir dispute but notes its existence. Some see it as having relegated issue to cold storage while concentrating general improvement of relations.
- January 11: Shastri dies of heart attack.
- February: Withdrawal of armies behind established international borders and cease-fire line, as laid down in Tashkent agreement, is implemented.
- June: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto exhibiting open disenchantment with Tashkent begins to distance himself from what he later denounces as a sellout of Kashmir and is finally forced to resign on grounds of "ill health".
- 1967
- January-June: Indian People's Representation Act is made applicable to occupied Kashmir as part of continuing efforts to integrate State with Indian Union and further erode Article-370 and what autonomy it conferred on Kashmiris.
- Elections held in occupied Kashmir are almost massively rigged by G.M. Sadiq government which has become almost totally subservient to New Delhi. Sadiq's party, the old National Conference, now renamed is an extension of Indira Gandhi's Congress. Plebiscite Front which is believed to represent Abdullah's views boycotts elections.
- July: Mirza Afzal Beg is permitted to return to his native Islamabad in the Valley as is Sheikh Abdullah's wife Akbar Jahan.
- December: Maulana Sayeed Masoodi, another detained leader, is released.
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