Ganguly, Sumit (2016), Deadly Impasse, Cambridge University Press, p. 137, ISBN978-0-521-76361-5: Description of the 1949 Cease-Fire Line: "... thence to MARPO LA (to be shared by both sides), thence through Point 17561 [Point 5353], thence through Point 17352 [Point 5289], thence through Point 18400 [Point 5608], thence through Point 16760, thence to (inclusive to India) DALUNANG."
Puri, Lt Gen Mohinder (2015), Kargil: Turning the Tide, Lancer Publishers LLC, ISBN978-1-940988-23-8: The entire Drass Sector including Mushkoh is dominated by a series of heights along the Marpola Ridge which emanates from Faranshat village in POK. Point 5353, a prominent height on this ridge overlooks both the Mushkoh-Drass Valleys and NH 1D, and dominates the approach to POK.
Chandar, Col Y Udaya (2018), Independent India's All the Seven Wars, Notion Press, p. 536, ISBN978-1-948473-22-4: Pt 5353 is the highest peak in this area (16500 feet). It is the most dominating feature in Dras Valley, and is on a confluence of number of spurs and overlooks the long stretch of Srinagar-Leh highway.
Praveen Swami, Fact and fiction on Point 5353, Frontline, 30 September 2000.
'No one appeared to be in any doubt about just where Point 5353 was during the Kargil war itself.... "The maps signed by the Indian and Pakistani DGMOs (Directors General of Military Operations) in 1972 clearly indicate that it belongs to India," the PTI despatch noted.'
Puri, Mohinder (24 July 2013). "Kargil: A Ringside View". Indian Defence Review. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
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Manu Pubby, Near Tiger Hill, Point 5353 still Pak-occupied, The Indian Express, 13 July 2009: "While the point is clearly on the Indian side of the LoC, it remains in Pakistani control..."
Kashmir peak "recaptured" by Indian army; 16 reportedly killed, BBC Monitoring South Asia, 27 August 2002. ProQuest452165601.
"It might be recalled that the then army chief, General V. P. Malik, had asked Brigadier Amar Nath Aul, the commander of 56 Brigade at Dras, at the height of the Kargil conflict to seize Point 5240 and Point 5353 from the Pakistanis, who had taken control of these peaks."
PTI, Pakistan army launches major build-up along Line of Control – Indian report, BBC Monitoring South Asia, 10 August 1999. ProQuest452135188.
"Meanwhile, fighting is still going on for recapturing the point 5353 in Mushkoh valley, situated on the Line of Control (LOC), which Islamabad claims to be part of Pakistan."
Rahul Bedi, Fears of fresh clash over Kashmir peak, The Telegraph, 11 August 2000: "Military sources said Point 5353, a 17,397 ft peak on Indian territory, was under Pakistani control..."
Sandeep Dikshit, Army fails to clear controversy over Point 5353[dead link], The Hindu, 28 August 2002: "The importance of this feature arises from the fact that it overlooks Marpo La, a key pass on the LoC which India dominates, and also supplements the Pakistani observation of National Highway 1A, lifeline of Siachen and Leh."
Praveen Swami, Pakistan still occupies key Drass point, The Hindu Business Line, 11 August 2000. "When Pakistani troops detected the Indian presence on 5240, they promptly launched a counter assault on 5353. Seven days later, in early November, the Grenadiers unit on 5240 watched Pakistan take up positions on the more important peak."
Praveen Swami, Controversy on point 5353, The Hindu Business Line, 13 August 2000: "First, the Army's own one-inch maps... make clear that point 5353 is on the Indian side of the LoC. Copies of these maps, in Business Line's possession, show that the Marpo La ridge, on which point 5353 is located, does slope down into the Pakistan side of the LoC. But the summit and southern face of point 5353, where Pakistan has built fortified bunkers, are unmistakably on the Indian side of the LoC."
Point 5353 controversy rears its head again, The Tribune, 28 August 2002: A single page denial issued by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said, “as far as Point 5353 is concerned, it is a Point on the Line of Control (LoC) as delineated after Simla Agreement. This has been authenticated on a map by Lt. Gen P.S. Bhagat of India and Lt. Gen Abdul Hamid Khan of Pakistan on a map on December 11, 1972”.
Point 5353 controversy rears its head again, The Tribune, 28 August 2002: The denial prompted by the media reports ... conveniently overlooked the factor that the most dominating feature on the Indo-Pak border in the Kargil region – Point 5353 – is under the Pakistani army control.
Gen Ashok K. Mehta, Point 5353 still in Pakistan’s possessionArchived 9 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine, The Tribune (Chandigarh), 13 June 2004: Point 5353 is the summit of pinnacles on the watershed in the Dras sector. ... Its colossal domination of the Dras Bowl and Sandow valley was achieved by the Pakistan Army, cleverly using the two south-facing ridge lines emanating from it and paralysing the movement in Dras.
Gen Ashok K. Mehta, Point 5353 still in Pakistan’s possessionArchived 9 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine, The Tribune (Chandigarh), 13 June 2004: Point 5353 is the summit of pinnacles on the watershed in the Dras sector. ... Its colossal domination of the Dras Bowl and Sandow valley was achieved by the Pakistan Army, cleverly using the two south-facing ridge lines emanating from it and paralysing the movement in Dras.
