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2006-06-05 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john 2006-06-05 16:40|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 To repeat myself, cover the glacier with Norite activated charcoal powder. A little bit goes a long way! Quickly there would be no glacier to fight over.
Dust in the wind...

Posted by 3dc 2006-06-05 17:24|| 2006-06-05 17:24|| Front Page Top

#2 It is not the glacier ice they are fighting over.

Pakistan wants India to give up the entire Saltoro Ridge, a long ridge extending nearly 120 km, (on which runs the Actual Ground Position Line, or AGPL) from the border of India with Pakistan ceded Chinese territory in the north to India's Kargil sector in the east.

The strategic significance of the Saltoro Ridge and the Siachen Glacier is that it gives India strategic and terrain domination over Pakistan's so-called Northern Areas (Jammu and Kashmir territory merged into Pakistan) and Pakistan-ceded Kashmir territory to China.

It also blocks routes of ingress to the vital Ladakh sector, and provides a 'strategic wedge' to prevent a further Pakistan-China geographical link-up.

It acts as a 'strategic pressure point' against Pakistan's military adventurism in the Kargil sector.

Indira-Col, the northern most part of Siachen, directly overlooks Chinese occupied territory that was illegally ceded by Pakistan to China. Having a foot on the ground here is the only way for India to legitimately and effectively dispute the illegal Chinese presence here.

Posted by john 2006-06-05 17:41|| 2006-06-05 17:41|| Front Page Top

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