Kammala jumlar da ke gaba: Bayan kisan Kennedy a 1963, dangantakar Indiya da Amurka ta lalace a hankali. Duk da yake magajin Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson ya nemi ci gaba da dangantaka da Indiya don magance Kwaminisancin China, ya kuma nemi karfafa alaƙa da Pakistan tare da fatan sauƙaƙe tashin hankali da China da kuma raunana ci gaban sojojin Indiya. Dangantaka sai ta kai ga mafi ƙarancin lokaci a ƙarƙashin gwamnatin Nixon a farkon 1970s. Nixon ya koma baya daga tsaka tsaki wanda magabata suka ɗauka game da tashin hankali na Indiya da Pakistan. Ya kulla kyakkyawar alaka da Pakistan, yana taimaka mata ta fuskar soja da tattalin arziki, yayin da Indiya, a yanzu karkashin jagorancin Indira Gandhi, ke karkata zuwa ga Tarayyar Soviet. Ya yi la'akari da Pakistan a matsayin muhimmin abokin tarayya don magance tasirin Soviet a yankin Indiya da kuma kulla dangantaka da China, wanda Pakistan ke da kusanci sosai. Dangantakar sirri tsakanin Nixon da Indira ta kara ba da gudummawa ga dangantakar da ke tsakanin kasashen biyu. A lokacin da
1971 Indo-Pakistan War, Amurka a bayyane ta goyi bayan Pakistan kuma ta tura jirgin samanta na jirgin sama USS "Enterprise" zuwa Tekun Bengal, wanda Amurka ke kallon shi a matsayin nuna karfi don tallafawa sojojin Pakistan ta Yamma. Daga baya a cikin 1974, Indiya ta gudanar da gwajin nukiliyarta na farko, Murmushi Buddha, wanda Amurka ta yi adawa da shi, duk da haka kuma ta kammala cewa gwajin bai keta wata yarjejeniya ba kuma ta ci gaba da jigilar uranium mai wadataccen uranium don reactor na Tarapur a watan Yunin 1974.