Demilitarisation of glacier : The Tribune India


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Pakistan's recent National Security Policy articulating that for the next 100 years it wouldn't be seeking hostility with India has been put to test by our Army Chief, who has offered demilitarisation of Siachen Glacier, provided Pakistan accepted the Actual Ground Position Line. Will Pakistan take do it? Continued deployment on the glacier makes no economic sense for both India and Pakistan as they spend billions of rupees to maintain troops on the highest battlefield of the world. Precious human lives are lost to avalanches and extremely cold weather every day. Even strategically, there is no logic for Pakistan to...