Pak, China create border disputes as part of a mission: Rajnath Singh

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ After Pakistan, China too is creating a dispute at the border with India as if it was part of a ‘mission’, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday, in a direct criticism of the two countries together for creating tensions along India’s northern and western frontiers spanning around 7,000 km.

The defence minister, after inaugurating 44 bridges at an online event, also said that the situation along borders with both the countries remains tense. While the Indian and Chinese troops are engaged in a bitter border row for over five months in eastern Ladakh, the situation along the Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan has also been volatile with Pakistani forces relentlessly trying to push terrorists into Jammu and Kashmir.

“You are well aware of the conditions created along our northern and eastern borders. First it was Pakistan, and now also by China, as if a border dispute is being created under a mission. We have a border of about 7,000 km with these countries where the tension continues,” Singh said.