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Monday, February 18th, 2008
GreaterKashmir - New Delhi, Feb 6: India and Pakistan are going to take up the issue of environmental degradation of the sensitive Siachin glacier at a meeting in Islamabad soon.
Informing this to newspersons here, Pakistan’s Minister for Environment, Local Government and Rural Development Syed Wajid Husain Bukhari said the meeting, ...
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Sunday, September 16th, 2007
In this Article author Aamir Ali, who is a member of the WCPA Informal Group argues the creation of a Peace Park - that may contribute to resolving this half-century-old international conflict and preserving a unique high mountain environment currently being subjected to irreparable devastation.
Paper-A siachen peace park
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Friday, September 22nd, 2006
TV Padma
22 September 2003
Source: SciDev.Net
The Siachen glacier may be the world?s highest war zone. Here, bullets whistle over the wild roses and snow leopards? dens, endangering the fragile environment as they perpetuate the decades-long war between India and Pakistan. But this beleaguered bit of no-man?s-land high up in the Himalayas ...
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