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| China trying to revive 'silk route': Dr Jitendra | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 15: BJP National Executive Member & J&K Chief Spokesperson Dr Jitendra Singh today highlighted latest intelligence reports suggesting efforts and recent strategy of Beijing to revive what is popularly called the "Silk route" or the traditional trade route of Central and South Asia and criticized UPA government for the same. This will amount to trespassing of the northern areas of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir including Gilgit Baltistan presently under illegal occupation of China and Pakistan, he warned. Elaborating further, Dr Jitendra Singh said the "silk route" is bounded in the North East by Tibet, further North by Xinjiang province of China, in the North West by the Wakhan corridor of Afghanistan, in the West by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and further South by Punjab of Pakistan. This geographic layout is strategically important, also because of its high mountain range, he said and explained that is why for hundreds of years in the past, Russian, Persian, Chinese, Tibetan and British Indian empires constantly sought access to this region to dominate each other.
Even today this "ancient axis of Asia" provides a gateway for both India and China to Central Asia,he added.
Dr Jitendra Singh said China has deployed more than ten thousand troops for the purpose of developing infrastructure in the area of Gilgit Baltistan which is de facto under its control since Pakistan is reported to have leased it out under the pretext of facilitating development.
Dr Jitendra Singh accused the UPA government for its failure to perceive China's well-planned policy to take the benefit of ambiguity over the LAC which has been perpetuated by successive Congress governments in New Delhi beginning from the first Congress government headed by Prime MinisterJawaharlal Nehru and unfortunately even today, despite frequent recent incursions by Chinese the present Congress led government is making no determined effort to redeem this ambiguity. |
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