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Chinese Army Spotted Along LoC in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir

PLA troops have been spotted at posts along LoC on Pakistani Kashmir, ringing alarm bells along the security grid.

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After frequent incursions into the 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 along the security grid. The Army has spotted senior PLA officials at the forward posts opposite the Nowgam sector in North Kashmir, after which some Pakistani army officers suggested that Chinese troops have come to pursue some infrastructural development along the LoC, sources in the know of said today.

The Army has officially maintained complete silence on the issue but has been constantly updating various intelligence agencies about the presence of PLA troops along the LoC, the sources said. The PLA troops were first spotted in the latter part of the last year and ever since their presence was witnessed opposite Tangdhar sector as well.

In this area, the Chinese government-owned China Gezhouba Group Company Limited has been building a Jhelum-Neelum 970 MW Hydel power project. 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 it is expected to be complete this year.

The Pakistan Army intercepts also suggested that the Chinese PLA would be digging some tunnels in Leepa Valley, located in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, 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 by China.

In the meantime, some of the experts in the nation’s security grid have been giving serious thoughts to the presence of PLA in close proximity with Pakistani army officials.

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