China Increasing Military Presence in Kashmir



Kashmir
This report is ominous.

China's presence in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) is "increasing steadily" and its troops are "actually present" along the Line-of-Control, a top Army commander said, adding the Chinese footprints are "too close for comfort" for India.

"Chinese presence in Gilgit-Baltistan and the Northern Areas is increasing steadily... There are many people who are concerned about the fact that if there was to be hostility between us and Pakistan, what would be the complicity of Chinese."

"Not only they are in the neighbourhood but the fact that they are actually present and stationed along the LoC," Northern Army commander Lt Gen KT Parnaik said here last week while addressing a seminar.

He said China's links with Pakistan through PoK "lends strength" to the "nexus" between the two countries which is a cause of "great security concern" for India.

Even if Kashmir were not a potential flashpoint, Chinese military nosing around would be suspicious.

It's also interesting that the Chinese military would nestle with overwhelmingly-Muslim Pakistan. Not long ago, the same Chinese military hammered the Muslim Uyghur (Uighur) population in Xinjiang Province for speaking out and protesting forceful repression by the Han Chinese.