Chinese Army spotted along LoC in Pak-occupied Kashmir
By: PTI | Srinagar March 13, 2016
Army has officially maintained complete silence on
the issue but have been constantly updating various intelligence agencies about
the presence of PLA troops along the Line of Control.
After frequent incursions in Ladakh area, Chinese
People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops have been spotted at forward posts along
the Line of Control (LoC) on the Pakistani side of Kashmir,
ringing alarm bells in the security grid.
The Army has spotted presence of senior PLA
officials at the forward posts opposite Nowgam sector in North Kashmir after
which some intercepts of Pakistani army officers suggested that the Chinese
troops have come to create some infrastructure along the LoC, sources in the
know of developments said on Sunday.
Army has officially maintained complete silence on
the issue but have been constantly updating various intelligence agencies about
the presence of PLA troops along the Line of Control, the sources said.
The PLA troops were first spotted in the later part
of the last year and ever since their presence was witnessed opposite Tangdhar
sector as well. In this area, Chinese government-owned China Gezhouba Group
Company Limited has been building a Jhelum-Neelum 970 MW Hydel power project.
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The hydel project is being built in response to
India’s Kishanganga power project being built in Bandipore of North Kashmir.
The Indian project is designed to divert water from the Kishanganga River to a
power plant in the Jhelum River basin and will have an installed capacity of
330 MW.
Construction on the project began in 2007 and is
expected to be complete this year.
The intercepts also suggested that Chinese PLA
would be digging some tunnels in Leepa Valley, located in Pakistan-occupied
Kashmir (PoK), to build an all-weather road which will serve as an alternate
route to reach Karakoram Highway.
The visit by PLA officials is seen by experts as
part of Beijing’s 46 billion dollar China-Pakistan-Economic Corridor (CPEC)
under which Gwadar port in Karachi is linked to Chinese Xinjiang province
through Karakoram highway, an area under illegal occupation of China.
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