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Media trip to Siachen cancelled due to harsh weather
President and Prime Ministers' trips to Siachen also cancelled.
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Siachen tragedy – day 9: Foreign and local teams continue rescue mission
Experts believe traditional tools for digging would help the effort.
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Revisiting Siachen
The Siachen story has its heroic moments, but it would be remembered in history as an example of Man’s perversity.
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Siachen tragedy – day 8: After fresh slide, rescuers excavate new site
DGMO says rescuers reached ground level at three points but no troops found.
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Against all odds: ‘Our morale is as high as K-2’
Despite being known as the ‘district of martyrs’, hope runs surprisingly high in Siachen.
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In the winter trenches
The best way to condole and remember these soldiers is to campaign for an end to the Siachen conflict.
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Siachen tragedy: China sends technical devices, personnel to help rescue efforts
Pakistani troops began excavating a new site in their search for 138 people buried by an avalanche.
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Siachen tragedy: Hope dims for victims’ families
Four soldiers from Sindh are among the troops trapped in Giari.
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Military activity responsible for glacier tragedy: Expert
Debunks ‘myth’ that Siachen is melting due to global warming.
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Siachen — the facts
It was Pakistan’s clear understanding that the area, according to 1972 LoC delineation, demarcation, belonged to her.
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Making Siachen a peace park
There is a solution which could be arrived at if both sides were to put aside their stubbornness and stupidity.
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Siachen tragedy - Day 7: Foreign teams arrive to help avalanche rescuers
Low temperatures hampering the effectiveness of heavy machinery being used to dig through the mass of snow and ice.
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Giyari tragedy: PSO assists army in rescue work
PSO says it provided 40,000 litres of high-speed diesel for rescue work in Giyari sector.
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Damn you, Siachen
I let out choice curse for those who put at peril lives of Pakistan, India men by ordering occupation of glacier.
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'Sixth site' added on day six in Siachen search operation
Excavation reaches 115 feet at point one.
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Siachen tragedy — Day 4 : Rescuers search desperately as weather turns foul
Foreign experts unable to reach site; military releases updated list of 138 buried.
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Pious wishes and ugly reality
Pakistan didn’t start this conflict. It wants end to it. Possible agreement is there. Elephant in the room is India.
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Siachen day 4: Search operation continues despite weather conditions
452 persons including 69 civilians employed in relief efforts.
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Siachen tragedy – Day 3: With hope lost, rescuers face new dangers
Digging through snow, rescuers fear the bodies might be desecrated.
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Why the Siachen issue must be resolved
The glacier is coming unstuck because of unnatural warming. Has killed Pakistani troops there due to Indian deployment
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Siachen tragedy: With weather delays, hopes of successful rescue dim
Rescue reinforcements not able to travel to the sector as helicopter service remains suspended.
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Imran flays Zardari’s India visit amid Siachen tragedy
Khan says the nation will not forgive leaders who do not know how to stand by the state in trying times.
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Siachen tragedy: Amidst fading hopes, rescuers search for survivors
According to the army, 240 troops and civilians participated in the rescue operation on Sunday.
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Siachen Glacier: Pakistan army hopes miracle will save avalanche victims
Around 200 military personnel and 100 civilians are taking part in the rescue operation.
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Siachen Glacier: Tragedy hits world’s highest battlefield
At least 124 soldiers, 11 civilians trapped as avalanche hits army camp in Baltistan.
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Avalanche traps 135 people near Siachen, rescue operation underway
At least 135 soldiers, including a colonel and 11 civilans, go missing after avalanche hit them at Gayari sector.