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When MMS & Shyam Saran were stitching Siachen 'Mountain of Peace' deal, people like Lt Gen Katoch @KatochPrakash were warning against this catastrophic idea. Read what he wrote in 2012.
https://archive.claws.in/820/not-about-siachen-prakash-katoch.html
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When MMS & Shyam Saran were stitching Siachen 'Mountain of Peace' deal, people like Lt Gen Katoch @KatochPrakash were warning against this catastrophic idea. Read what he wrote in 2012.
https://archive.claws.in/820/not-about-siachen-prakash-katoch.html
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Also, the former FS would've us believe that it was a very benign process. When it was anything. Here are some pointers:
1. Whole Track-2 was chaperoned by Atlantic Council, Ottawa.
2. This 'think tank' shapes world opinion to further US interests. Yes, it claims
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Also, the former FS would've us believe that it was a very benign process. When it was anything. Here are some pointers:
1. Whole Track-2 was chaperoned by Atlantic Council, Ottawa.
2. This 'think tank' shapes world opinion to further US interests. Yes, it claims
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neutrality but simply look up its Board of Directors. They'll have deep linkages with US Government (State Department, Treasury and Intelligence).
3. Confidence Building Measure (CBM) agreed between Indian and Pakistani delegates in 2012, was verbatim copy of a joint
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neutrality but simply look up its Board of Directors. They'll have deep linkages with US Government (State Department, Treasury and Intelligence).
3. Confidence Building Measure (CBM) agreed between Indian and Pakistani delegates in 2012, was verbatim copy of a joint
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paper on demilitarization of Siachen glacier published 5 years earlier in 2007!!!
4. So, was 2012 Track-2 simply a cover-up for implementing a deal which had already been brokered by US between India and Pakistan?
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paper on demilitarization of Siachen glacier published 5 years earlier in 2007!!!
4. So, was 2012 Track-2 simply a cover-up for implementing a deal which had already been brokered by US between India and Pakistan?
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itself is very interesting.
- It was written jointly by ex-Brig Gurmeet Kanwal and ex-Brig Asad Hakeem (Pakistan Army)
- It was sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories, USA, which is "an agency of the United States Government'
- In its own words -
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itself is very interesting.
- It was written jointly by ex-Brig Gurmeet Kanwal and ex-Brig Asad Hakeem (Pakistan Army)
- It was sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories, USA, which is "an agency of the United States Government'
- In its own words -
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"Sandia is a multi-program laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company, for the United States Department of Energyâs National Nuclear Security Administration"
- So, any more doubts where this proposal came from?
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"Sandia is a multi-program laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company, for the United States Department of Energyâs National Nuclear Security Administration"
- So, any more doubts where this proposal came from?
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(6) Indian Track-2 team:
- It had many ex-IA personnel but it seems only some mattered in terms of what was agreed.
- It was led by ACM Tyagi (retd) and also had Col Shukla
- It seems the idea was to pretend that ex-army personnel had proposed a CBM on Siachen
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(6) Indian Track-2 team:
- It had many ex-IA personnel but it seems only some mattered in terms of what was agreed.
- It was led by ACM Tyagi (retd) and also had Col Shukla
- It seems the idea was to pretend that ex-army personnel had proposed a CBM on Siachen
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and the GOI was going ahead with THEIR recommendations.
- After all, it ex-army types say it is OK to demilitarize Siachen, then who can object? It can be sold to larger public also an army proposal.
(7) Never mind that these members were a facade who were meant
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and the GOI was going ahead with THEIR recommendations.
- After all, it ex-army types say it is OK to demilitarize Siachen, then who can object? It can be sold to larger public also an army proposal.
(7) Never mind that these members were a facade who were meant
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only to put their stamp on a pre-agreed proposal.
(8) It is thanks to spirited questioning by ex-servicemen like Lt Gen Katoch, Brig Mahalingam, and Maj Gen S G Vombatkere that GOI shrugged its hand off the proposal. And pretended that this was a private initiative.
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only to put their stamp on a pre-agreed proposal.
(8) It is thanks to spirited questioning by ex-servicemen like Lt Gen Katoch, Brig Mahalingam, and Maj Gen S G Vombatkere that GOI shrugged its hand off the proposal. And pretended that this was a private initiative.
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(9) Finally, I leave you with these excellent articles written by the gentlemen mentioned above which bring out in detail the catastrophe we managed to avoid by a hair's breadth.
- Please do read. They're also important from current stand-point angle:
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(9) Finally, I leave you with these excellent articles written by the gentlemen mentioned above which bring out in detail the catastrophe we managed to avoid by a hair's breadth.
- Please do read. They're also important from current stand-point angle:
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- Siachen Unmasked: http://103.16.143.39/udayIndiaArchive/english/content_29december2012/focus.html
- Siachen: What is the strategic or diplomatic rationale for demilitarization? : https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/In-search-of-propriety/siachen-what-is-the-strategic-or-diplomatic-rationale-for-demilitarization/
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- Siachen Unmasked: http://103.16.143.39/udayIndiaArchive/english/content_29december2012/focus.html
- Siachen: What is the strategic or diplomatic rationale for demilitarization? : https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/In-search-of-propriety/siachen-what-is-the-strategic-or-diplomatic-rationale-for-demilitarization/
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Demilitarizing Siachen: Trading Strategic Advantage for Brownie Points
http://www.indiandefencereview.com/news/demilitarizing-siachen-trading-strategic-advantage-for-brownie-points/
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Demilitarizing Siachen: Trading Strategic Advantage for Brownie Points
http://www.indiandefencereview.com/news/demilitarizing-siachen-trading-strategic-advantage-for-brownie-points/
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