And its really unbelievable how shameless indians term surrender after mumbai incident and at kandhar as their restraint ,pursuit etc etc.
If above two are not surrender then 1971 is not surrender for pakistan instead it was pakistan restrain to avoid civilian casualtites caught in between the two warring armies.
It was pakistan's restraint to avoid making dhaka as another Beirut.
ok let's do it ur way:
Case 1: Kandhar Hijack - India had just fought a war in Kargil & terrorists took advantage of security lapses in Kathmandu airport & hijacked IC-814 with 150+ people on board, they were not only Indians but of others nationality also, there was no way India could had performed a commando operation since that would had resulted in loss of lives as terrorists were even ready to blow the plane up. Plus, India did not recognized the Talibani regime in Afghanistan which was totally hostile to India & was tacitly helping the terrorists, so India had no support from host country govt. either. Add to all this the pressure from the families of the people on board & American govt. (since there was an American citizen on board), which was demonstrating day & night in front of the PMO, now if exchanging 3 terrorists with that of freedom of 150+ people & happiness of there relatives is called SURRENDER than be it.
Case 2: 26/11 - first make up ur mind as to why u called it an Indian surrender??? Did u wanted India to attack Pakistan??? maybe u are accepting that the GOP was indeed responsible for 26/11. Anyways, starting a war was not the right step for India & I am proud that India didn't took that case, since India is a rising power & war at such a crucial time of it's growth had only resulted in loss of innocent lives, property, prosperity, u believe it or not but every country in this world praised Indian restrain at that time & mind u it can't be called as surrender as nations don't praise surrenders.
+ It was not that India didn't do anything, but if u look closely to the events of 4 years post 26/11 than u will know that India has achieved a great diplomatic victory the world over, now no nation trusts Pakistan as far as Terrorism goes, it's biggest Ally of the cold-war US attacks with drones on it's territory nearly everyday & making mockery of it's sovereignty, didn't even trust her to catch the most wanted terrorist in the world. All it's traditional weapon suppliers are thinning down it's supplies to Pak, be it US, France, Germany or any other nation. Every powerful leader in this world is now calling for Pakistan to act on terrorists from German Chancellor to US President. Even the major Arab (& ally of Pak) nation KSA helped India arresting terrorists totally ignoring Pakistani concerns.
Case 3: surrender of 1971: U r claim on saving human lives is completely BS, since Indian Army never killed innocent civilians apart from that killed in collateral damages, in fact they were cheered & greeted when they set foot on BD by local people. PA surrendered only b'coz they were surrounded on all sides - IAF had taken complete air superiority, IN had enforced complete blockage of BD, IA was all over BD & PA soldiers were in fear of retaliation by local pop. thats why they thought better to surrender.