evidence: Siachen Glacier in the Eastern Karakoram range of the Himalayas, is famously known as the ‘highest battlefield on earth’ as well as the second-longest glacier in the non-polar areas. It lies on the tri-junction shared with Pakistan-occupied areas of Jammu &Kashmir along with the Saltoro Ridge to the west and the Chinese province of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, with the Karakoram Range to the east. The glacier starts at the northernmost demarcated point of the ceasefire line between India and Pakistan, commonly called the Line of Control, at the edge of the Union territory of Ladakh. Located at around 20,000 feet above sea level, the average snowfall in this 76-km-long glacier is around 35 feet, where temperatures can touch -70 degrees Celsius. The area had remained majorly untouched by British surveyors during their surveys, and it was not until the efforts of the Indian armed forces much later that Siachen and Nubra glaciers entered the world map. [...] In 1972, the Shimla Conference took place led by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. After India’s victory over Pakistan in the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Siachen Glacier was left unmarked again, this time under an agreement known as the ‘Suchetgarh Agreement’. According to the Indian government’s interpretation, the Pakistani domain extended from Saltoro Ridge till NJ9842, whereas Pakistan claimed that its domain extended further east, to the Karakoram Pass.