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Thursday, September 17, 2009 (08:35:20) |
| Tags : Defence, Border Issue, India, China |
Indian Army replenishing posts along China border |
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New Delhi: The Indian Army is replenishing its forward posts along the frontier with China in Jammu and Kashmir and the northeast, officials said on Wednesday, adding this was an annual routine.
"This is an annual exercise, named Operation Alert, that we conduct every year to replenish our forward posts along our borders with China before the winter and nothing more should be read into it," a senior Indian Army officer told media. "It has nothing to do with the reports of border skirmishes, which, in any case, the government has officially denied," the officer added.
"There has been no mobilization beyond the routine activities that we normally carry on at this time of the year," the officer said.
In the past months, there have been several reports of Chinese troops intruding into Indian territory in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir creating anxiety about Beijing's aggressive designs.
The Indian government has, however, sought to play down the incursions, saying these are routine incidents that occur due to differences in perception about the Line of Actual Control.
China has officially denied its troops have intruded into Indian territory.
The Indian Army officer also pointed out that the force's activities had little to do with the just-concluded high-profile war game conducted by the Chinese Army in which close to 50,000 troops had been deployed in a cross-country tactical mobilisation that was seen as Beijing's efforts to improve its ability to move troops to Tibet whenever reinforcements were required. (IANS) |
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