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Pakistani and Indian militaries have been occupying the Siachen Glacier and surrounding regions for decades. Although a cease-fire is in place, continued occupation carries the risk of an inadvertent conflict, which could escalate into a full-fledged nuclear-backed confrontation. Political and military analysts in Pakistan and India now question the strategic significance of the Siachen Glacier and agree that under the right circumstances, military withdrawal from the Siachen Glacier region would not adversely affect either state. The difficulty lies in conducting the withdrawal in such a way that neither side feels vulnerable, and in maintaining the demilitarization in a way that can be verified. In this paper, the authors who have both held command responsibilities in the Siachen Glacier region present a process for conducting and verifying the demilitarization of the Siachen Glacier region.
The Siachen Glacier and adjacent regions—a part of the larger territorial dispute between India and Pakistan that has its origins in the 1949 Karachi Agreement—has been occupied by the Pakistani and Indian militaries since 1984. The conflict has its genesis in the formulation of the cease-fire line in the 1949 Karachi Agreement. The text defines the cease-fire line in this area as running to map coordinate NJ 9842 and “. . . thence north to the glaciers.” The line was never demarcated. The Indian interpretation is that the current line of control (LOC) should run northeasterly from NJ 9842 along the Saltoro Range to the Chinese border. The Pakistani interpretation is that the LOC should run from NJ 9842 straight to the Karakoram Pass (KKP) on the Chinese border. Both nations have incurred heavy economic costs and casualties in this conflict. Both nations recognize the benefit of ceasing the conflict and demilitarizing the area. An informal cease-fire has held in Siachen and Kashmir since November 2003. Prior to the current cease-fire, combat consisted of small-scale clashes during the summer and the exchange of artillery fire. Aircraft have not played a combat role. Talks were first conducted during 1986–1998, and were restarted in 2004 as a topic in the Composite Dialogue.
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