New Delhi: India and Pakistan will discuss the Siachen issue, which has been hanging fire for over two decades, on June 11-12 in Islamabad with an aim of demilitarising the world's highest battle-filed. Defence Secretaries of the two sides will hold talks for two days there in an attempt to find a solution to the vexed problem which is costing immensely to both countries in terms of monetary and human...
08:32 PM, Jun 03, 2012
Islamabad: Ahead of its key talks with India on the Siachen issue, Pakistan has claimed that the biggest hurdle in resolving the military standoff on the world's highest battlefield are the armies of the two countries. Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar, who was the Defence Minister till yesterday and has now been given the water and power portfolio in a minor Cabinet reshuffle, said India and Pakistan both stand to benefit from...
01:10 PM, Jun 03, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan Army on May 29 declared all the 139 soldiers as dead who were buried alive by an avalanche at a high-altitude camp in the Siachen sector, proclaiming them as "shuhada" (martyrs). A military statement declaring them dead came days after rescuers recovered three bodies from the remote glacier where a huge avalanche buried them in early hours of April 7. The military said that the decision to proclaim...
01:07 PM, May 29, 2012
Islamabad: Nearly 50 days after an avalanche slammed into a high-altitude Pakistan Army camp in the Siachen sector near Indian border, search teams have found the body of one of the 139 people who were buried under dozens of feet of snow in the world's highest battleground. The body was identified as that of Mohammad Hussain, one of the 128 soldiers from the Northern Light Infantry who were buried by...
12:37 PM, May 27, 2012
New Delhi: An Indian Army officer was killed and another injured on Wednesday when the helicopter they were piloting crashed on the Siachen glacier, the world's highest battlefield, during a routine supply sortie, the Army headquarters in Delhi said. The two officer-pilots were trying to land the chopper at the Bhim post helipad in northern glacier area at 11.45 am when they lost control of the flying machine and it...
03:29 PM, May 23, 2012
Islamabad: India and Pakistan will hold their next round of talks on the military standoff on Siachen glacier in Islamabad during June 11-12 against the backdrop of renewed calls from the Pakistani civil and military leadership for the demilitarisation of the world's highest battlefield. "Pakistan and India will hold talks on the Siachen issue on June 11-12 at Islamabad," Foreign Office spokesman Moazzam Khan said in a brief statement on...
10:48 PM, May 10, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Thursday contended that India had hardened its position on the Siachen issue as compared to the 1989 stance it had adopted, saying that it "takes two hands to clap". Speaking to the media during a visit to a high-altitude army camp in Siachen sector that was hit by an avalanche on April 7, Kayani said India had "toughened its stance" on...
07:49 PM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: India lost 26 of its soldiers manning the world's highest battlefield in Siachen glacier in the last one year, Parliament was informed on Monday. "The number of casualties in Siachen in the last one year is 26," Defence Minister AK Antony told the Lok Sabha in written reply. He also informed that 12 rounds of defence secretary level talks have been held between India and Pakistan till now...
08:21 PM, Apr 30, 2012
New Delhi: India and Pakistan have agreed to hold meaningful and result-oriented discussion to demilitarise Siachen glacier region where 26 soldiers died during deployment last year, government told the Lok Sabha on Monday. In a written reply, Defence Minister AK Antony said, "The number of casualties in Siachen in last one year is 26." On diplomatic measures for demilitarisation of Siachen glacier region, he said, "12th round of Defence Secretary-level...
04:24 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Islamabad: The era of wars has ended and Pakistan is prepared to resolve all outstanding issues with India, including the Kashmir dispute and terrorism, through talks, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Monday. "The era of wars has ended. We are ready to sit and resolve all core issues, whether it is Kashmir, Sir Creek, Siachen, water or terrorism at the negotiating table," Gilani said while addressing a conference...
08:19 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan should not unilaterally withdraw its forces from Siachen, the world's highest battleground, opposition leader Imran Khan has said. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief said in Lahore on Sunday that there has be simultaneous withdrawal of forces by India as well as Pakistan, Geo News reported. Imran Khan was reacting to Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's statement on April 18 that his country favoured talks with India...
12:08 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Lahore: President Asif Ali Zardari has ruled out any unilateral withdrawal of Pakistani soldiers from Siachen, saying troops can be called back from the Himalayan glacier only if India agrees to do the same. "The withdrawal of Pakistani troops is possible provided India also agrees. It will not be a unilateral decision," he said while addressing a convention of workers of his Pakistan People's Party in Okara district, 100 km...
01:06 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Hyderabad: India on Thursday welcomed Pakistan Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's remarks on resolving the Siachen issue and demilitarisation there and said the money spent on deployment of troops can be spent on development of the two countries. "I am glad that our neighbouring country Pakistan is also realising the challenges and the economic problems of maintaining troops on the Siachen Glacier," Minister of State for Defence MM Pallam...
01:39 AM, Apr 20, 2012
Pakistan army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has said that India and Pakistan must sort out differences for peaceful coexistence. ...
09:21 PM, Apr 19, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday conducted an aerial survey of the area in Siachen sector where Pakistani troops are involved in a frantic search for 138 people, mostly soldiers, buried under dozens of feet of snow following an avalanche that hit an army camp 11 days ago. The visit to Gyari area by the President, who is the supreme commander of the armed forces, was aimed at...
04:34 AM, Apr 19, 2012
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