evidence: - Saltoro Ridge occupation is staking a claim beyond NJ 9842 in the event of an eventual settlement along the Line of Control and the Actual Ground Position Line. - India has always claimed that the entire state of J&K including Northern Areas acceded to India on 26 Oct 1947. Occupation of Saltoro is therefore the occupation of Indian territory by the Indian Army. It is non-negotiable. - If the line joining NJ 9842 to Indira Col i.e, the line along Saltoro Ridge is extended to the Indo – Tibet boundary, a major part of Shaksgam Valley illegally ceded to China by Pakistan in 1963 will fall into Indian Kashmir.