Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Stand firm at Siachen: No question of glacier retreat
Deccan ChronicleWhen the incumbent Chief of Army Staff and a former foreign secretary talk about the Siachen Glacier, it’s time to take note. Didn’t the decisive political-cum-clinical military action of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi bring the Siachen Glacier back to India in April 1984? Must New Delhi forget the January 1966 Tashkent capitulation where at the behest of a third-party host’s intervention India surrendered Haji Pir Pass, which was reclaimed after much bloodshed on the battlefield? Doesn’t the Siachen Glacier occupy the “strategic heights” — overlooking both Pakistan and China? Indians could profitably study each and every statement by the German naval chief, Vice-Adm Kay-Adam Schoenbach, at a New Delhi seminar on China’s ceaseless perfidy and treachery against India.
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