China’s PLA Resumes Building Border Post Along Kaurik in HP
ITBP patrol spots Chinese soldiers inspecting road and foot bridges on Pareechu besides operational stone-crusher supplying raw material.
Editorial Staff
China’s PLA Resumes Building Border Post Along Kaurik in HP
With snow melting in the high-altitude areas, China’s People Liberation Army has begun constructing a post along the Indian border in the sensitive Kaurik sector of Himachal Pradesh’s tribal Lahaul and Spiti district. Residents of border villages of Shaktot and Churup, who have started sowing crops, noticed that the PLA has operationalised its stone-crusher for raw material to build the post. An Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) recce team also reported seeing PLA officials inspecting the road and foot bridges across the Pareechu, a tributary of the Spiti river. Also read: Army Inducts First Batch of Women in Non-Officer Cadre Pareechu originates in Indian territory but meanders back in the mountains of China before reaching the confluence with Spiti. A glacial lake burst on the course of the Pareechu on the Chinese side in 2004 and damaged road bridges on the banks of the Spiti and its main Sutlej river, also known as the powerhouse of the Himalayas for its hydel potential. During the rou…
