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Summary Indian Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh has said that Indian military would not move out of Siachen.
Indian army chief General Bikram Singh has said that India must continue to hold on to Siachen because of its strategic significance, even as Pakistan has stepped up demands for demilitarising the glacier citing prospects of long-term peace.“These positions are of strategic importance and we have conveyed our concerns to the government. Now it is for the government to take a call,” he said during a media interaction. He said the army’s views on Siachen had been consistent.He said a lot of blood had been shed to occupy the glacier, a 76-km river of slow moving ice.Several rounds of talks between India and Pakistan on demilitarising the Siachen have failed with Islamabad refusing to authenticate troop positions on the ground. The last round of defence secretary level talks held in Rawalpindi in June yielded no results.
