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Missing in action is a status assigned to a member of the armed services who is reported missing following combat and may be injured, captured, or dead. US ARMED FORCES & INDIAN ARMED FORCES The term was first used in America in 1946 to refer to a member of the armed services who is reported missing following a combat mission and whose status as to injury, capture, or death is unknown. The missing combatant must not have been otherwise accounted for as either killed in action or a prisoner of war. Its American abbreviation (not commonly used elsewhere) is MIA. During the Indo Pak War 1971, more than 90000 POW s were taken in East Pakistan( now Bangladesh ). While the war spilled over to West Pakistan ( Now Pakistan ),Pakistan took Indian defence personnel as POWs on the western front. After ceasefire, though India gave back all Pakistani POWs, Pakistan retained about 54 Indian defence personnel by not disclosing their capture. These 54 Indian officers are in Pakistan prisons and are MIA's in India since 1971 ( approx 36 years ) Kerry POW/MIA Committee During the late 1970s and 1980s the friends and relatives of unaccounted for American GIs became politically active, requesting the U.S. government reveal what steps were taken to follow up on intelligence regarding last known alive MIAs and POWs. When initial inquiries revealed important information had not been pursued, many families and their supporters asked for the public release of POW/MIA records and called for an investigation. |
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