centre objects to China's infra projects in Shaksgam valley
New Delhi, Jan. 10 -- India on Friday opposed China's infrastructure development projects in the Shaksgam valley and said it has the right to take measures to safeguard its interests as the region is Indian territory.
"Shaksgam valley is Indian territory. We have never recognised the so-called China-Pakistan Boundary Agreement signed in 1963," external affairs ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal told a weekly media briefing.
Jaiswal was responding to a question about infrastructure development by the Chinese in the Shaksgam Tract, which includes the Shaksgam Valley, and is an area of 5,200 sq km north of the Karakoram watershed that has been illegally occupied by China since 1963.
The region was earlier occupied by Pakistan since 1947 bef...
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