No hostility on India-China border: ITBP chief (Lead, correcting name)
October 21st, 2010 - 7:02 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) There is no hostile activity on the India-China frontier and it is a “friendly” border, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) chief R.K. Bhatia said Thursday.
“Unlike the Pakistan border where there is conflict situation, there is no such activity which says that it (Chinese) is not a friendly border,” Bhatia said at a press conference here on ITBP’s 49th Raising Day.
Bhatia also denied reports of any intrusion or encroachment across the border.
Set up in October 1962, the ITBP is deployed to guard 3,488 km of the India-China border from Karakoram Pass in Ladakh to Diphu La in Arunachal Pradesh. Having border outposts on altitudes ranging from 9,000 feet to 18,500, most of its officers and men are professionally-trained mountaineers and skiers.
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