siachen glacier and saltoro ridge area is the territory that is bordered by tibet to the east and was fought over by india and pakistan.
siachen glacier and saltoro ridge area is the territory that is bordered by tibet to the east and was fought over by india and pakistan.
what territory that is  bordered by tibet to the east was fought over by india and pakistan?
siachen glacier and saltoro ridge area
in 1949, china closed the border between nubra and sinkiang, blocking the 1000-year-old trade route from india to central asia. in 1950, china invaded tibet, and thousands of tibetans, including the dalai lama sought refuge in india. in 1962, china occupied aksai chin, and promptly built roads connecting sinkiang and tibet, and the karakoram highway, jointly with pakistan. india built the srinagar-leh highway during this period, cutting the journey time between srinagar to leh from 16 days to two. simultaneously, china closed the ladakh-tibet border, ending the 700-year-old ladakh-tibet relationship.
history of ladakh
however, wars still broke out shortly after as both tang and tibet wanted to expand their territory and power, as well as frontier generals wanted to grab for more fame and military exploits. military officers such as li wei, zhang shou-gui, wang zhong-si, ge shu-han defeated tibet in the region from east to west successively, making tibet sue for peace for several times.in 754 a.d, the prime minister in tibet, modongzebu and langgese, rebelled and killed their king me agtsom. in 755 a.d, a 13-year-old new king, thrisong deutsen, took over the reign.at the same year, the cataclysmic ‘an shi rebellion’ broke out in tang.emperor xuanzong fled from chang-an to sichuan and the deployment of tang's army to suppress the rebellion gave tibet the opportunity to occupy the tang's territory of longyou, hexi and four towns in anxi. in october of 763 a.d, availing themselves of the opportunity that there was a discord among the emperor and officials in tang, in addition to that shuofang army turned a blind eye on their aggression towards the east, tibet occupyed the chang-an city with an army of 200 thousand soldiers, making emperor daizong escape to shanzhou, and selected li cheng-hong, brother of princess jin-cheng, to be the new emperor.tibetan army withdrew after occupying chang-an for 15 days on hearing that tang's army of loyalty was marching toward the city.the tibet kingdom expanded its territory to a great extent in the reign of thrisong deutsen. at that time, tibet bordered itself in east by long mountain with tang( the tibetan army even occupied to baoji once, threatening the safety of chang-an), in north by helan mountain that connecting huiqi, conquering nanzhao in east-south to be its tributary. in 790 a.d, tibet occupied the four towns in anxi and beiting in the west direction and stretched its northern territory to the north coast of ganges river in india as historic tibetan classics recorded.
tibet and the tang and song dynasties