One nit: PakistanKashmir has a contiguous border with China. The Karakoram highway was built as a physical expression of the ties between Pakistan and China. Not much trade takes place over the road but it's a symbolic connection.
You may remember the much derided reports of Chinese troop movements in that area last fall. Probably not the numbers reported by D****, but possibly a move by China to stop Jihadis fleeing Northern Afghanistan/Kashmir entering China if the US had taken a whoopa** strategy to the region.
Recently, pakistani papers reported that a Uighur Leader, fighting with the Taliban, had been turned over to the Chinese by the Pakistanis.
Dog_Gone, i think China took over that part, called Aksai Chin when it invaded and occupied Tibet in 1959.
According to
indiainfo.com-
- In 1962, China attacked India and thus began the Indo-China War
- China occupied Aksai-Chin (part of the Ladhak region in Kashmir), in the 1962 Indo-China War and overran Arunachal Pradesh.
- In 1963, the Indian Territory in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir was ceded illegally to China under the so-called Sino-Pak 'boundary agreement'
At this point, I'm confused. I always thought the Pakistanis gave the Chinese their part of Kashmir, but now it would seem they got atleast some part of it during the '62 war.