The tensions flared up even as the Indian Army is all set to hold a major exercise to test its new integrated battle groups in Arunachal Pradesh in October, added the report.
Tensions
at the border between India
and China flared up again on Wednesday after a prolonged
confrontation between the troops of both countries in eastern Ladakh,
the Times of India reported on Thursday.
Sources
told the national daily that the face-off began soon after dawn on
Wednesday on the northern bank of the 134-km-long Pangong Tso --
'Tso' means lake -- two-thirds of which is controlled by China.
The
tensions flared up even as the Indian
Army is all set to hold a major exercise to test its new
integrated battle groups (IBGs) in Arunachal Pradesh in October,
added the report.
An
unnamed source told ToI that Indian Army soldiers were on a patrol
when People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers confronted them.
According
to the source, the PLA soldiers "strongly objected" to the
presence of the Indian soldiers in the area. The source added that
this led to a scuffle between the soldiers of the two countries, with
both sides sending in some reinforcements to the area. "The
face-off was in progress at the site till the evening,” the source
told the national daily.
In
its response to the paper, the Indian Army said that delegation-level
talks, led by brigadier-rank officers, had been "agreed to by
the two sides" in accordance with the established bilateral
mechanism to defuse such tensions.
"Such
incidents often take place due to differing perceptions of where the
Line of Actual Control (LAC) actually lies... they are usually
resolved through border personnel meetings, flag meetings and the
like," an unnamed officer told ToI.
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