India rejects China's Shaksgam valley claims, terms CPEC illegal
NEW DELHI, Jan. 14 -- Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi on Tuesday rejected Beijing's claims over Shaksgam valley, underlining that India considers the so-called China-Pakistan Boundary Agreement of 1963 - under which Islamabad ceded 5,180 sq km of Indian territory in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir to China --- to be illegal. His comments came a day after China reaffirmed that Shaksgam valley belongs to it and that it was fully justified for Beijing to build infrastructure on its own territory.
"We do not approve of any activity in Shaksgam valley," the army chief said at A customary press conference. To be sure, India does not recognise the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) that cuts across Indian territory under forcible and illegal occupation of Pakistan.
"We do not accept the statement issued in China on CPEC and consider it to be an illegal action being carried out by the two nations," Dwivedi said. P4...
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