{"id":136739,"date":"2020-09-08T01:44:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T20:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=136739"},"modified":"2020-09-08T01:45:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T20:15:17","slug":"yet-to-hear-from-china-says-indian-army-on-pla-abducted-arunachalee-youths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/09\/08\/yet-to-hear-from-china-says-indian-army-on-pla-abducted-arunachalee-youths\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet to hear from China, says Indian Army on PLA abducted Arunachalee youths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[ Tongam Rina ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PASIGHAT, Sep 7:<\/strong> The Indian Army has said that there is no official response from the Chinese side five days after five Arunachalee youths went missing &#8211; suspected to have been abducted by the China&#8217;s People&#8217;s Liberation Army (PLA) &#8211; from Indian territory in Upper Subansiri district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We are waiting for response from PLA,&#8221; said Defence Spokesman Lt Col Harsh Wardhan Pande, responding to a query from this daily regarding the release of the five youths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The boys were reportedly picked up by the PLA in Sera-7 area, which is way inside the Indian territory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian, as reported by China&#8217;s state media Global Times, said that China has no details to release yet on the question of the Indian Army&#8217;s sending a message to the PLA about the five missing Indians in the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The spokesperson did not deny the abduction but said that China has never recognized Arunachal. The Chinese government calls Arunachal China&#8217;s south Tibet region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Indian Army is yet to give an official statement. However, the state government via the DIPR&#8217;s official Twitter handle said that the &#8220;Arunachal Govt is closely monitoring the case of 5 missing boys in Nacho, Upper Subansiri. District Administration has been directed to assist all concerned agencies to trace the missing boys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In March this year, PLA had abducted a youth from the same district and released him 19 days later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Tongam Rina ] PASIGHAT, Sep 7: The Indian Army has said that there is no official response from the Chinese side five days after five Arunachalee youths went missing &#8211; suspected to have been abducted by the China&#8217;s People&#8217;s Liberation Army (PLA) &#8211; from Indian territory in Upper Subansiri district. &#8220;We are waiting for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-136739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}