Karakoram a mountain range, is of great geopolitical significance as:1. It connects India and China.2. It serves as a watershed for the basins of the Indus and Yarkand rivers.3. The borders of India, China, Pakistan along Afghanistan and Tajikistan all converge within the Karakoram system.Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

The correct answer is Only 2 and 3.The Karakoram is a mountain range spanning the borders of China, India, and Pakistan, with the northwest extremity of the range extending to Afghanistan and Tajikistan. ​HENCE statement 3 is correct. It is the second-highest mountain range in the world.It is a part of the complex of ranges including the Pamir Mountains, the Hindu Kush and the Himalayan Mountains.The Karakoram HIGHWAY connects China-Pakistan. Hence statement 1 is incorrect.The Karakoram is bounded on the east by the Aksai Chin plateau, on the northeast by the edge of the Tibetan Plateau and on the north by the river VALLEYS of the YARKAND and Karakash rivers beyond which lie the Kunlun Mountains.The Karakoram is part of a complex of mountain ranges that also includes the Himalaya, Hindu Kush, and Pamir ranges.The range has eight mountains with tops over 7,500 metres (24,600 ft) high.Four of these are higher than 8,000 metres (26,000 ft).They are K2, Gasherbrum I, Broad Peak, and Gasherbrum II.It serves as a watershed for the basins of the Indus and Yarkand rivers. ​Hence statement 2 is correct. The formation of river channels, for the most part, occurs in the high-elevation zone.where the melted WATERS of seasonal and perpetual snows and glaciers feed the rivers.Suspended pulverized stone, or rock flour, makes glacial meltwater opaque.