The Salvation Military Pakistan
The Siachen Glacier, although part of the Kashmir region, was not demarcated on maps prepared and exchanged between the two sides in 1947. In consequence, prior to the Nineteen Eighties neither India nor Pakistan maintained a everlasting army presence within the area. However, beginning within the Fifties, Pakistan started sending mountaineering expeditions to the glacier. By the early 1980s, the Government of Pakistan was granting special expedition permits to mountaineers and United States Army maps confirmed Siachen as part of Pakistan. Indian Army officer subsequent to a destroyed Pakistani Sherman tank, after the battle of Asal Uttar. The Battle of Longewala ensued, during which A Company, although outnumbered, thwarted the Pakistani advance until the Indian Air Force directed its fighters to have interaction the Pakistani tanks. By the time the battle had ended, 38 Pakistani tanks and a hundred armoured vehicles had been either destroyed or deserted. About 200 Pakistani troops...