Viewpoint
As 138 men lie buried under a 25-metre high and 1000-metre wide avalanche on the Siachen glacier the pointlessness of the conflict that caused this massive human tragedy is more…
Promise of peace?
By a tragic coincidence, President Zardari left for New Delhi just as a wave of grief over the horrific loss of life caused by a mighty avalanche in the army’s…
Bring the boys home
Eighty-feet-deep snow, boulders and slush buried more than a hundred human beings, snuffing out life and subjecting families to unfathomable grief and sorrow. Was it worth it? Has the Siachen…
The martyrs of Gyari
One hundred and thirty-nine brave Pakistanis, 124 of whom were members of the Pakistani army, lie buried under 80 feet of snow on the Siachen Glacier after an avalanche crashed…
Strengthening relations
I grew up with the notion that the only good Indian is a dead Indian and I mean the South Asian variety. However, as I grew older, a number of…
No victors
Nearly 135 soldiers and non-combatants of the Northern Light Infantry Battalion were trapped under a massive avalanche in the Gayari Sector, early on April 7. It is a major tragedy…
Inability to think
While the avalanche that buried an entire army camp, with 138 people, in the Siachen sector is surely a national tragedy, there is so much else that has distracted the…
Beating the peace drums
A little more than a week ago, a battalion headquarters of the Pakistani army in the Gayari sector of Siachen was suddenly buried under a nearly 20-metre-thick mass of snow,…
