India says Shaksgam Valley is ‘our’ territory amid China's construction activity reports: ‘Pakistan illegally…’
Shaksgam Valley to be our territory. We have never accepted the so-called China-Pakistan boundary agreement of 1963 through which Pakistan unlawfully attempted to cede the area to China." Randhir Jaiswal added. Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said on Thursday that the Shaksgam valley is a part of India and New Delhi never accepted the so-called China-Pakistan boundary pact of 1963 through which Islamabad "unlawfully" attempted to cede the area to Beijing.
India lodged protest against Beijing's constructions in the Shaksgam Valley area. The Shaksgam valley is a strategically key region that is part of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). MEA Randhir Jaiswal's comments come after recent reports suggested that Chins had breached roads into the Indian border at Aghil Pass and entered the lower Shaksgam valley of Kashmir.
The reports mentioned China had placed itself, only 48 kilometres away from Siachen. Satellite images showed the Chinese road approaching Aghil Pass, with construction resuming this month advancing towards areas north of Siachen Glacier. In 2018, it was reported that Beijing had built around 70 km of metalled road between September 2017 and February 2018 in Shaksgam Valley, around 5,163 square km of which was illegally ceded by Islamabad to Beijing in a controversial 1963 boundary agreement.
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