China told to stop PoK infra work

India has asked China to stop infrastructure development activities in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), even as it keeps a close watch on Beijing’s “rapid” development of strategic roads, railway lines and airfields in Tibet as well as along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). Defence minister A K Antony, in a written reply to Lok Sabha on Monday to a question posed by 18 MPs, said, “Government is aware that China is undertaking infrastructure projects in PoK. We have conveyed our concerns to China about its activities in PoK and asked them to cease such activities.” Apart from the massive build-up of Chinese military infrastructure all along the 4,057-km LAC, there is growing concern about the Chinese People’s Liberation Army troops actually being stationed along the volatile 778-km-long Line of Control (LoC) between India and Pakistan.