CHINA-INDIA: PLA JOINT PATROLS WITH PAK ARMY IN XINJIANG
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The People's Daily published a 12-photograph pictorial report on July 21, 2016, which depicted soldiers from Pakistan and China ostentatiously posing for photographs at various locations along the shared border. The caption with the photos read: “A frontier defense regiment of the PLA (People’s Liberation Army) in Xinjiang, along with a border police force from Pakistan, carries out a joint patrol along the China-Pakistan border.” (Comment: It is pertinent to note that the area of the patrol, identified in the report as “the China-Pakistan border,” is the frontier region of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir — an area claimed by India as an integral part of its territory. China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region borders Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and does not share a border with mainland Pakistan. China usually refers to the disputed area as “Pakistan-administered Kashmir”.)
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