MUMBAI - The mysterious death of Lal Bahadur Shastri, one of India's most popular prime ministers, has returned to haunt the Indian government 43 years later.
Shastri passed away hours after signing a controversial peace accord with Pakistan in a summit meeting in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The pact formally ended the 1965 war between the two sub-continental neighbors.
Shastri, 61, died under strange circumstances in Tashkent, now the capital of Uzbekistan and one of the oldest cities in Central Asia, on January 11, 1966, soon after signing the Tashkent pact with then Pakistan president Mohammad Ayub Khan. (He assumed office in June 1964.)
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