The day India lost its beloved Prime Minister who had stood strong for the nation in the face of aggression, and allowed the Army a free hand to hit back hard at Pakistan's misadventures in Kashmir.<br />Was Lal Bahadur Shastri, murdered? Officially, Shastri died of a heart attack in a dacha in Tashkent, hours after he signed a peace agreement with the Pakistani president, Ayub Khan.<br />The Pakistani President and the Indian Prime Minister were in Tashkent to sign a peace accord – only four months after the end of the second war between the two neighbours.<br />Surviving members of the Shastri family and veteran journalist Kuldip Nayyar shocked the world in 2009 by openly claiming that Shastri was possibly poisoned.<br /><br />Video: The Quint<br />Music: Big Bang Fuzz
