India asks China to pull back thousands of troops and weapons from volatile Himalayan border, saying New Delhi wants a peaceful resolution through talks
Indian military trucks carrying supplies move towards forward areas in the Ladakh region on September 15, 2020.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh told the upper house of Parliament on Thursday that China has amassed troops and weapons in the Ladakh region of India-administered Kashmir in violation of agreements reached in the 1990s and is trying to alter the status quo there.
"What is pressing now is that the Indian side should immediately correct its mistake, disengage on the ground as soon as possible, and take concrete actions to ease the tension and lower the temperature along the border," Wang said at a daily briefing. They fought a border war in 1962 that spilled into Ladakh and ended in an uneasy truce. Since then, troops have guarded the undefined border area, occasionally brawling. The standoff escalated to a deadly clash on a high ridge on June 15 that left 20 Indian soldiers dead.
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