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Siachen Glacier

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Siachen Glacier

Himalayan glacier at an altitude of 5,236 m/17,000 ft in the Karakoram Mountains of north Kashmir. Occupied by Indian forces 1984, the glacier has been the focal point of a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan since independence in 1947.

Three wars in 1947, 1965, and 1971 resulted in the establishment of a temporary boundary between the two countries through the province of Jammu and Kashmir, but the accords failed to define a frontier in the farthest reaches of north Kashmir. Pakistan responded to the 1984 Indian action by sending troops to the heights of the nearby Baltoro Glacier.
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India claims the entire former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir and presently administers approximately 43 percent of the region, including most of Jammu, Kashmir Valley, Ladakh and the Siachen Glacier.
As far as Kashmir issue is concerned, India will not redraw borders: ... by Asian News International
While addressing a seminar on Marble and Granite reserves development in NWFP, he said that nature has gifted Pakistan with huge reserves of minerals like marble and granite which spread from Karachi to Siachen Glacier.
PASDEC Chairman directs mine owners to stop blasting by Balochistan Times (Baluchistan Province, Pakistan)
In another border dispute, China claims the Siachen glacier, which makes up almost one-third of the disputed state of Kashmir, which Pakistan also claims.
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