evidence: 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. [...] During his expedition, Col Narendra Kumar encountered a German mountaineering expedition, whose map showed the areas beyond NJ9842, and almost 4,000 sq km of territory around it, as Pakistani domain. This alarmed the then-Indian Army chief, General T N Raina. The Indian government thus decided to deploy Indian soldiers in the Saltoro Ridge but due to the extreme cold and inhospitable weather conditions in the region, they would be deployed only in summer. [...] Drawing on the title of the 4th Century CE Sanskrit play Meghdoot by Kalidasa (based on the message of love carried by a cloud to the Himalayas), the military operation named Operation Meghdoot was secretly launched under the leadership of Lt-Gen Prem Nath Hoon. In his conversation with Nitin Gokhale author of Beyond NJ 9842: The Siachen Saga (2014), Brig Vijay Channa, then the commander of 26 Sector HQ, reveals that he was asked to choose a date between 10 and 30 April for the occupation of the Saltoro Ridge. He chose 13 April, the festive day of Baisakhi, when the Pakistanis would least expect the Indian side to launch any military operation.