‘Shaksgam Valley is Indian territory’: India rejects China–Pakistan claims

India Today

India has reiterated that the Shaksgam Valley is Indian territory and that it has never recognised the 1963 China–Pakistan boundary agreement.

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00:00Shaksgaam Valley is Indian territory.

00:03India has opposed Chinese infrastructure activity in the Shaksgaam Valley near Siachen Glacier.

00:07We have never recognized the so-called China-Pakistan boundary agreement that happened in 1963.

00:15Let's take a quick look at the history of the Shaksgaam Valley.

00:18The region was considered part of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir

00:21under the Dogra rulers in post-India's partition.

00:24And with the accession of Jammu and Kashmir to India,

00:26the Shaksgaam Valley became a part of India too.

00:28The entire Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are an integral and ineligible part of India.

00:35But during the Indo-Pakistani war of 1947, Pakistan captured the territory

00:39and it became a part of the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

00:42The turning point came in 1963 when Pakistan ceded the Shaksgaam Valley to China

00:46when it signed a border agreement with Beijing to settle their border disputes.

00:50We have consistently maintained that the agreement is illegal and invalid.

00:55The strategic importance.

00:57The Shaksgaam Valley is strategically vital because it lies at the junction of China, Pakistan and India.

01:02Offering control over high altitude routes in the Karakoram range.

01:05For China and Pakistan, it secures their shared frontier and strengthens military and connectivity links near Ladakh and Xinjiang.

01:12The recent remarks by the MEA came after a query on reports that China is constructing a long all-weather road in the Shaksgaam Valley.

01:23According to reports, nearly 75 km of the road, estimated to be around 10 meters wide, has already been completed,

01:30with construction continuing at a rapid pace.

01:32We further reserve the right to take necessary measures to safeguard our interests.

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