Chronology of key events: 1983: Mar-Apr – Pakistani Generals decide to stake their claim to the Siachen glacier – an unmarked, strategically important territory claimed by both countries post the Simla Accord, by posting troops to the region. The Pakistan Army order Arctic weather gear from a London supplier, unaware that the supplier provided outfits to the Indian Army; upon receiving intelligence inputs of that development, the Indian Army puts forward their own plan the preempt the Pakistanis in ‘Operation [...]