Pak Army rejects reports of additional deployment of troops along LoC

TIL Desk/World/Islamabad/ The Pakistan Army has rejected as “false and irresponsible” media reports that it has moved around 20,000 additional soldiers along the LoC in PoK and Gilgit-Baltistan to match the Chinese deployments on the LAC. The military’s media wing in a statement on Twitter “vehemently” denied the presence of Chinese troops in Pakistan and refuted reports that the Skardu Airbase in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) was being used by China.

News claiming additional deployment of the Pakistan Army troops along the LoC in GB and alleged use of Skardu Airbase by China is “false, irresponsible and far from truth,” Inter-Services Public Relations Director General Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar said. “No such movement or induction of additional forces has taken place. We also vehemently deny the presence of Chinese troops in Pakistan,” he said.

Amid the military stand-off between India and China in eastern Ladakh, media reports claimed that Pakistan has deployed “almost 20,000 additional soldiers” along the LoC in PoK and Gilgit-Baltistan “to match Chinese deployments on the Line of Actual Control in the east. The report said that the level of troops Pakistan has deployed is more than what it did after the Balakot air strikes.