How Siachen was being gifted to Pakistan?

But today, the man himself who witnessed the deal between India and Pakistan has exposed the Congress's double face.

Shyam Saran, who was the foreign secretary of India until 2006, in his upcoming book part-history-part-memoir titled How India Sees the World, has revealed that he along with his Pakistani counterpart Riaz Mohammad Khan had struck a deal on orders of Congress government to take back Indian
troops and give away the Siachen Glacier to Pakistan.

But this deal was sabotaged and scuttled by the then National Security
Advisor MK Narayanan, who literally saved India from Congress's illogical
and stupid decision.

In his book, Sharan writes that Manmohan Singh wanted to settle the deal
with Pakistan by handing over Siachen glacier for which all stakeholders
were consented. The deal was even consented by the Indian Army, and
mentioned its finer points, including current positions of the forces of
the two countries, the positions to which they would withdraw, a schedule
for redeployment, and a joint monitoring mechanism to prevent mutual
intrusions. All this would have been recorded in an annexure to the main
agreement.

"To give the document additional strength, we insisted, and the Pakistani
side agreed, that both the agreement and the annexure will be signed, and
that the main agreement will explicitly declare that the annexure had the
same legal validity as the agreement itself," writes Sharan. "I did many
rounds of consultations, both at the senior bureaucratic and ministerial
levels in the ministries of defence, home and finance (whose members are
part of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS)."

He claims that the then Army Chief JJ Singh and all chiefs of the
Intelligence Agencies were brought on board. The deal was consented by the
Army and its intricate technical details including the points and timing of
redeployment and also the phases in which it would have been implemented
and the structure of the monitoring mechanism were actually worked out by
the Director-General Of Military Operations.

But it was during the CCS meet, the NSA Chief M K Narayanan raised serious
concerns about the deal and argued about compromising the National security
of the country.

"When the CCS meeting was held on the eve of the Defence Secretary-level
talks, the NSA launched an offensive, saying that Pakistan could not be
trusted, and that there will be political and public opposition to any such
initiative and that India's military position in the northern sector
vis-à-vis both Pakistan and China will be compromised. General Singh, who
had happily gone along with the proposal in its earlier iterations, now
decided to join Narayanan in rubbishing it."

It was only after MK Narayanan raised concerns, the Chief of the Army also
agreed that the Siachen deal was not safe and would put India in grave
danger.

In the meeting, then Home Minister Shivraj Patil and Defence Minister
Pranab Mukherjee remained silent and played safe in front of NSA chief as
they did not want to lose face for endorsing such a stupid deal. Manmohan
Singh who desperately wanted to pass the deal remained mute after NSA and
Army Chief raised concerns and defied with the order.

Narayanan in the meetings also said that the Siachen topic should never
become an agenda in the India-Pakistan talks on the border issue. At this point
it is said that Pranab Mukherjee himself supported Sharan and added that
Rajiv Gandhi himself had agreed to include Siachen in the India–Pakistan
dialogue.

These events clearly suggest that how the Congress government was all set
to give away the Siachen glacier to Pakistan risking the entire Jammu
Kashmir. Siachen glacier is the highest battle filed which provides natural
protection to India. More than 500 soldiers during the Kargil war sacrificed
their life to get back Siachen glacier. Even during the operation Meghdoot
in 1984, over 890 soldiers sacrificed their lives protecting this piece of
land.

But Congress government under Sonia Gandhi wanted to gift Siachen to
Pakistan which would have been the biggest blunder after Nehru's decision
to approach UN to resolve Jammu Kashmir issue. How did they ever trust
Pakistan which has always backstabbed India?! Even with all security
measures and 24/7 vigil at the border, there are hundreds of terror
infiltration from Pakistan, imagine the catastrophic effect if Indian Army
was pulled back from Siachen Glacier!!

Its a shame to even think that the people in the government who were
trusted and elected to protect the country betrayed the Nation by opening
doors to the enemy! Is there anything left which Congress hasn't tried to
ruin India?!!!

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