Question

Siachen is not considered as a hill station. Give reasons.

Answer 1

Answer:

The Siachen Glacier, the world’s highest battlefield, is once again in the spotlight. On the morning of February 3, an avalanche hurtled down this icy wasteland, swallowing an Indian military post and claiming the lives of ten soldiers.

Explanation:

So inhospitable is the terrain of the Siachen Glacier that even as late as 1972 neither India nor Pakistan thought it necessary to clarify the boundary here,” a major-general of the Indian Army told The Diplomat. Neither country thought the other would be interested in an area that was “neither resource-rich nor habitable or seen to have great strategic value.”