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ASIA PACIFIC Date Posted: 08-Apr-2011
Defence Weekly
India warns of joint Sino-Pakistani border threat
Rahul Bedi Correspondent - New Delhi
Key Points
The presence of PLA troops on Pakistan's Kashmir border has led the Indian Army to warn that close ties between Islamabad and Beijing could harm India
The general responsible for India's northern border has said that China and Pakistan could launch joint operations along the line of control
The Indian Army has warned that deepening military ties between Beijing and Islamabad could see China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the Pakistani military launch joint operations along India's disputed northern border.
"It [the PLA] poses military challenges to India not only along the Sino-Indian border but also along the line of control [LoC] with Pakistan," Northern Army chief Lieutenant General K T Parnaik said at a seminar on 5 April in Jammu, the winter capital of the disputed Kashmir province.
"We hear many people today who are concerned about the fact that if there were hostilities between us and Pakistan, what would be the complicity of the Chinese; not only because they are in the neighbourhood, but that they are actually stationed and present on the LoC," added Gen Parnaik, whose operational responsibilities include the disputed borders with China and Pakistan.
In September 2010 Indian military intelligence drew attention to a "significant and worrisome" PLA presence along the Khunjerab pass in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. The PLA had deployed to the pass in the Gilgit-Baltistan region to provide security to Chinese workers building a road and high-speed railway.
India claims that between 3,000 and 5,000 PLA personnel are permanently stationed in Gilgit-Baltistan, which borders Indian-administered Kashmir.
Military officials said the road and railway will link China's Xinjiang province to Gwadar and the adjoining Pasni and Ormara ports on Pakistan's western coast in Balochistan province, which Beijing has been developing since 2002 to secure easy access to the Persian Gulf.
Concerns over the PLA's infrastructural development along the 4,057-km line of actual control (LoAC) have led India to launch reciprocal projects on its side of the border. The army is raising two mountain divisions of around 50,000 men for deployment along the LoAC, while the Indian Air Force (IAF) said in October 2010 that it would upgrade Nyoma advanced landing ground (ALG), which is 23 km from the LoAC, to enable deployment of its Su-30MKI fighter aircraft.
Defence Weekly
India warns of joint Sino-Pakistani border threat
Rahul Bedi Correspondent - New Delhi
Key Points
The presence of PLA troops on Pakistan's Kashmir border has led the Indian Army to warn that close ties between Islamabad and Beijing could harm India
The general responsible for India's northern border has said that China and Pakistan could launch joint operations along the line of control
The Indian Army has warned that deepening military ties between Beijing and Islamabad could see China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the Pakistani military launch joint operations along India's disputed northern border.
"It [the PLA] poses military challenges to India not only along the Sino-Indian border but also along the line of control [LoC] with Pakistan," Northern Army chief Lieutenant General K T Parnaik said at a seminar on 5 April in Jammu, the winter capital of the disputed Kashmir province.
"We hear many people today who are concerned about the fact that if there were hostilities between us and Pakistan, what would be the complicity of the Chinese; not only because they are in the neighbourhood, but that they are actually stationed and present on the LoC," added Gen Parnaik, whose operational responsibilities include the disputed borders with China and Pakistan.
In September 2010 Indian military intelligence drew attention to a "significant and worrisome" PLA presence along the Khunjerab pass in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. The PLA had deployed to the pass in the Gilgit-Baltistan region to provide security to Chinese workers building a road and high-speed railway.
India claims that between 3,000 and 5,000 PLA personnel are permanently stationed in Gilgit-Baltistan, which borders Indian-administered Kashmir.
Military officials said the road and railway will link China's Xinjiang province to Gwadar and the adjoining Pasni and Ormara ports on Pakistan's western coast in Balochistan province, which Beijing has been developing since 2002 to secure easy access to the Persian Gulf.
Concerns over the PLA's infrastructural development along the 4,057-km line of actual control (LoAC) have led India to launch reciprocal projects on its side of the border. The army is raising two mountain divisions of around 50,000 men for deployment along the LoAC, while the Indian Air Force (IAF) said in October 2010 that it would upgrade Nyoma advanced landing ground (ALG), which is 23 km from the LoAC, to enable deployment of its Su-30MKI fighter aircraft.
