Sandwiched along lines of no control
22 Sept 2014 4:28 AM IST
Indian borderline worries aren’t likely to go away anytime soon with armed militants and Chinese soldiers trying to encroach into Indian territories despite official indications to the contrary. On Friday, around 200 heavily armed militants were waiting across the Line of Control to infiltrate into the Indian side even as the security forces foiled several attempts by the ultras to sneak into Kashmir Valley following the recent floods.
‘Around 200 militants were still active in the entire Valley and the security grid of the army was in place to neutralise them,’ Lt Gen Subrata Saha, the General Officer Commanding of Srinagar-based 15 Corps, said on Saturday. ‘Even though we too suffered damage in the recent floods as more than 50 per cent of the cantonment area was inundated but we never allowed the security grid to weaken,’ he said. But Saha assured ‘robust’ counter terrorism and counter insurgency grids were in place to handle the situation.Meanwhile, 50 Chinese troops from People’s Liberation Army (PLA) entered Ladakh’s Chumar area on Saturday at a point different from Friday’s intrusion, agencies said.
Earlier on Friday, hours after withdrawing from the Chumar region in Ladakh, about 35 PLA soldiers were reported to have crossed into Indian territory again and stationed themselves on a hillock.
Official sources said the 35 Chinese soldiers returned to Chumar in northeast Ladakh and were perched on a hillock claiming the area to be part of China while another 300 soldiers were maintaining presence close to line of actual control (LAC).
The stand-off in Demchok and Chumar had cast a shadow on Thursday’s summit talks between PM Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
‘Around 200 militants were still active in the entire Valley and the security grid of the army was in place to neutralise them,’ Lt Gen Subrata Saha, the General Officer Commanding of Srinagar-based 15 Corps, said on Saturday. ‘Even though we too suffered damage in the recent floods as more than 50 per cent of the cantonment area was inundated but we never allowed the security grid to weaken,’ he said. But Saha assured ‘robust’ counter terrorism and counter insurgency grids were in place to handle the situation.Meanwhile, 50 Chinese troops from People’s Liberation Army (PLA) entered Ladakh’s Chumar area on Saturday at a point different from Friday’s intrusion, agencies said.
Earlier on Friday, hours after withdrawing from the Chumar region in Ladakh, about 35 PLA soldiers were reported to have crossed into Indian territory again and stationed themselves on a hillock.
Official sources said the 35 Chinese soldiers returned to Chumar in northeast Ladakh and were perched on a hillock claiming the area to be part of China while another 300 soldiers were maintaining presence close to line of actual control (LAC).
The stand-off in Demchok and Chumar had cast a shadow on Thursday’s summit talks between PM Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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