CCS rejects PM’s line, won’t go soft on Siachen

[alok mishra]

This indian attitude will take more life & money in future

send this CCS member to siachin & ask them to live there, than we will see how hard they want to be.....

or ask those inocent soldiers abt this idioic stance.

hamare yanha ek kahavat hai " Majboori Ka Naam Mahatma Gandhi"

same is happening with pakistan...otherwise we all know Pakistan's attitude. if you believe india is wrong in this matter go and read the history of india and pakistan(true history not from your class history subjects). than you will believe that india is not wrong in siachen matter or you can say our PM is wrong in this issue.

 

[T90TankGuy]

Cabinet Committee on Security rejects PM’s line, won’t go soft on Siachen

NEW DELHI: India is not going to give up its tactical and strategic advantage over Pakistan in the Siachen Glacier-Saltoro Ridge region anytime soon, even though the PM Manmohan Singh may still want to convert it into "a mountain of peace''.

The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), chaired by the PM, on Thursday cleared the 'brief' for the 13th round of the defence secretary-level talks to be held with Pakistan in Islamabad on June 11-12.

Sources said the Indian delegation, led by defence secretary Shashikant Sharma, will insist Pakistan first agree to the three sequential 'prerequisites' of authentication, delineation and demarcation of the respective troop positions on the Saltoro Ridge before military pullback plans can be discussed.

While there has been some buzz of 'a breakthrough' on the long-festering Siachen dispute , the Army has cautioned the UPA against any concessions in the face of Pakistani intransigence in providing iron-clad guarantees for even verifying the 110-km Actual Ground Position Line.

Defence minister A K Antony himself told Parliament in May that "dramatic decisions'' should not be expected from the talks slated for next week. Sources said India will tell Pakistan to first 'authenticate' the respective troop positions on the AGPL along the Saltoro Ridge since Indian soldiers occupy most of the 'dominating' posts there and Pakistani soldiers are three to seven km away from the glacier.

Second, the authentication process will have to be followed by proper 'delineation' both on the map as well as on the ground. This, in turn, will lead to the final 'demarcation' of the agreed border. India will only then 'consider' the proposed 'disengagement' and 'redeployment' of troops from the heights varying from 16,000 to 22,000-feet.

With better infrastructure and supply lines in place, the Army is no longer haemorrhaging like it did in the early years after its 'Operation Meghdoot' in April 1984 preempted Pakistan's 'Operation Ababeel' to occupy the icy heights. Pakistan, which lost 139 soldiers in an avalanche in April, is desperate to resolve the dispute since it is bleeding more. Over 3,000 of its soldiers have died in the region since 1984.

where is the link mate?