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Mountain of war: The India-Pakistan conflict’s deadliest battle zone
Key takeaways
- After their war last May, India and Pakistan reached a truce.
- A frozen river of more than one trillion cubic feet of pristine ice, stretching over 70km, it has been a battlefield since April 1984.
- But it’s unlike any other contested real estate.
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After their war last May, India and Pakistan reached a truce. But deaths continued on the world's highest battlefield.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Islamabad, Pakistan – Deep in the Karakoram mountain range, where the borders of India, Pakistan and China converge at heights the human body was not built to endure, lies a glacier the people of Baltistan and Ladakh have long called Siachen: "land of wild roses".
A frozen river of more than one trillion cubic feet of pristine ice, stretching over 70km, it has been a battlefield since April 1984. India and Pakistan have fought over it ever since.
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