Pakistan launches its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction" id="mw6g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pakistan and weapons of mass destruction">nuclear weapons program</a>, a few weeks after its defeat in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Liberation_War" id="mw6w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bangladesh Liberation War">Bangladesh Liberation War</a>, as well as the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1971" id="mw7A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Indo-Pakistani War of 1971">Indo-Pakistani War of 1971</a>.