Shaksgam Valley

In Shaksgam Valley, an area of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) that Beijing acquired in 1963, China is constructing a road that would link Muzaffarabad with Yarkahnd in Xinjiang via the Mustagh Pass.

• Located 5,400 square kilometers north ofSiachen, the Shaksgam valley is part of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and provides the Chinese with a strategic edge along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
• The Shaksgam Valley is a part of India's territory because India rejected the 1963 "China Pakistan Boundary Agreement," which purportedly allowed Pakistan to try and illegally hand over the region to China.
• China unlawfully acquired 5180 square kilometers of Indian territory in the Shaksgam Valley from Pakistan in 1963.
• The Trans Karakoram Tract, commonly known as the Shaksgam Valley, is a portion of the PoK'sHunza-Gilgit region.
• The road is thought to be a segment of a route that connects the Upper Shaksgam Valley, which lies adjacent to the Siachen Glacier, to the Karakoram Highway.
• This new road crosses the Aghil Pass, which is 16,333 feet high.
• It may offer an alternate route to the Upper Shaksgam Pass, which leads to the Karakoram Pass, and to the Khunjerab Pass, which is located in the northern areas of occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
• Dominate features of the region are the K2 peak. The region is mostly covered in glaciers and has high mountains on all sides.