A ranar 5 ga watan Agusta 1965 tsakanin sojojin Pakistan 26,000 da 33,000 suka tsallaka layin kula da ke sanye da kayan Kashmiri zuwa yankuna daban-daban a cikin Kashmir. Sojojin Indiya, wadanda mutanen yankin suka yi gargadin su, sun tsallaka layin tsagaita wuta a ranar 15 ga watan Agusta. Da farko, Sojojin Indiya sun sami nasara sosai, sun kama manyan wuraren tsaunuka uku bayan doguwar harin bindiga. A ƙarshen watan Agusta, duk da haka, bangarorin biyu sun sami ci gaba; Pakistan ta sami ci gaba a yankuna kamar Tithwal, Uri da Poonch kuma Indiya ta kama hanyar Haji Pir, mai nisan kilomita 8 a cikin Kashmir da Pakistan ke gudanarwa. A ranar 1 ga Satumba 1965, Pakistan ta kaddamar da hare-haren da ake kira Punjab Operation Slam, tare da manufar kama garin Akhnoor mai mahimmanci a Jammu, wanda zai yanke hanyoyin sadarwa da hanyoyin samar da kira ga sojojin Indiya.
Mazauna yankin Kashmir