Could it actually be true?
Maj Gen Chibber, Col Kumar and Brig Mehta
had poured over the maps of the northern border of India- Pakistan LOC.
The bewilderment was palpable.
The point beyond NJ 9842 till Karakoram Pass,
the entire area which included the Siachen
was being claimed as Pakistan’s.
It wasn’t just a play on the word “Karakoram”,
it was a matter of an international border
The original Radcliff Line drawn by the British
between India and Pakistan
starts from the Rann of Kutch in Gujrat,
through Rajasthan and Punjab till the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
The LOC separates Pakistan Occupied Kashmir
from India’s Jammu and Kashmir.
According to the Shimla Agreement
this was to be taken as the international border
till Point NJ 9842.
From where India went north to the Karakoram range,
“And thence Northwards.”
In the middle of these lines lay the triangular area of the Siachen Glacier,
a barren, inhospitable, icy stretch of land
of no economic value but immense geo-political value.
Because it’s the Siachen Glacier that separates Pakistan from China.
