Nilgiri
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Ok let me rephrase my question. Suppose there was a volcano instead of Siachen glacier above the point LoC ends. What would be the reaction of India, and Pak as well. Wouldn't we be fighting on papers and table instead of mountains. THAT is the point. Ego and pride (yours or mine) ends where NATURE begins, for human survival.
Siachen is not a suicidal stationing unlike a full fledged active volcano (if thats what you mean). Maybe it is more the case for the Pakistanis since they are below the saltoro ridge and thus get the worse end of avalanches and snow drifts etc...but India is perfectly fine holding the glacier....fiscally, strategically and attritionally.
Siachen is just a tiny part of a broader question....should India and Pakistan be in such a high stakes bitter confrontation overall? As long as most people believe on both sides that and promote leaders on the back of that, Siachen will continue as a natural extension of that.