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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXXV (January 2009)

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This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 05:41, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi

Saw in your first couple archive pages what a great job you've done with so many Pak. & military themed articles....and I hadn't seen the "Yawn" box before! You must have seen the map in the 2nd source in Siachen or maps like it, or talked to soldiers (either side), etc., and know where the AGPL ("the line of control") is there. I am a geographer-cartographer, with a specialization on the India-China-Pakistan-Bhutan area. So for many years I've studied every source there is on the Siachen area, and then some. Most confusion is while the Pak. control is on the west side, that doesn't include ANY of the Siachen Glacier, just other glaciers. Doesn't seem important which glacier, but have to get the geography right in WP, yes? (All four sources confirm that the Indian units are lined up from "Conway Saddle" (NY Times article) way in the north on top of the Saltoro Ridge south past Sia La, Bilalond La, and Gyong La** on top of the Saltoro Ridge all the way to near the NJ9842 area. And the Saltoro Ridge is west of the Siachen all the way, so those four sources and many others confirm that the Paks are not on the Siachen Glacier "proper." "Everyone" in the area knows this.....I've talked to soldiers who where there in the Siachen area. (**John Pike himself wrote to say that his www.globalsecurity.org article was old and wrong.) I love the Hunza area, Chilas (even with all the road blocks), Gilgit....I spent a lot of time there, have friends there.....So they and I don't think it's necessarily "fair" that when the boundary line cuts up northeast through Kashmir that it doesn't keep going that way (northeast) so that Siachen (mostly) would be in Pak. But what I think (what any of us think) isn't important for WP, of course....The WP article just has to present the facts on the ground (on the ice!) which is India with all of the Siachen Glacier proper, Pak. with the entire west side of the Saltoro Ridge. Thanks. See you in Gilgit sometime? Hope to see you get back more active and put more time in WP articles too!DLinth (talk) 02:39, 22 February 2009 (UTC)