Border roads, railway, and communication infrastructure that is crucial for not just war fighting but keeping loyal border populations rewarded for their unflinching loyalty to the nation, requires a very serious strategic rethink.
The latest round of Corps commander-level talks that began at around 9 am in Moldo on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) across India’s Chushul sector in eastern Ladakh went on for over 12 hours and was still underway at 9 pm, the sources said.
The biggest achievement here is that the locals are not motivated any more to join these terrorist forces.
India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador T S Tirumurti said that many other members of the Security Council underlined that Jammu and Kashmir was a bilateral matter between India and Pakistan and also stressed on the importance of the Simla Agreement.
The Centre has rolled out a number of development projects and welfare schemes for Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh in the last one year.
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The actions taken by the Chinese forces on the ground have damaged “considerable trust” in the bilateral relationship, Indian ambassador to China Vikram Misri said.
The June 15 flare up was the biggest confrontation along the LAC between the two forces after their 1967 clashes in Nathu La when India lost around 80 soldiers and China lost over 300 PLA personnel
“What happened in Galwan was premeditated and planned action by China which was responsible for the sequence of events.”
Police said an alert and an advisory have been issued in Kinnaur and Lahaul-Spiti districts to take all precautionary measures to ensure security of local population and also to collect intelligence.