4,000 Chinese Including Troops In PoK : Army Chief

New Delhi, Oct 5: Around 4,000 Chinese including the troops of the People’s Liberation Army of China are in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK), Army Chief Gen V K Singh said today amid the unease in the Indian establishment over their presence there.

“There are certain construction working teams, a large number is available. Around 3,000 to 4,000 of these people are present including certain people for security purposes. There are certain engineers troops. Now (like) our own engineers are combat engineers. So, in some way they are part of the PLA,” he told reporters here.

The Army Chief was responding to a query on the presence of Chinese Army troops in the PoK on the sidelines of the 16th Field Marshal K M Cariappa Memorial Lecture delivered by National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon.

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