{"id":255173,"date":"2025-01-14T00:14:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T18:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=255173"},"modified":"2025-01-14T00:14:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T18:44:51","slug":"situation-along-lac-in-eastern-ladakh-sensitive-but-stable-army-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/situation-along-lac-in-eastern-ladakh-sensitive-but-stable-army-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Situation along LAC in eastern Ladakh sensitive but stable: Army chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 13 Jan:<\/strong> The situation along the line of actual control (LAC) is sensitive but stable, Army Chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing a press conference ahead of the Army Day, Gen Dwivedi said there is still a degree of standoff in the region and efforts are needed to restore trust between the Indian and the Chinese militaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Army chief said patrolling and grazing in traditional areas have started in Depsang and Demchok, the two friction points from where the two sides disengaged in October last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Our deployment is balanced and robust and we are capable of handling any situation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We are focusing on boosting border infrastructure and capability development, the Army chief said on the overall LAC situation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, he said it is overall under control and the ceasefire pact with Pakistani side is holding up along the line of control.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the same time, the Army chief said infiltration attempts are continuing and the terror infrastructure on the Pakistani side is intact.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the last year, 60 percent of terrorists eliminated were of Pakistan origin, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Manipur, the Army chief said synergised efforts by security forces and proactive government initiatives have brought the situation in the state under control.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the Army chief said that cyclic incidents of violence continue in Manipur and the armed forces are trying to bring peace to the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Along the Indo-Myanmar border, enhanced surveillance and domination is in place to deal with any possibility of spillover of situation in Myanmar, he said. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 13 Jan: The situation along the line of actual control (LAC) is sensitive but stable, Army Chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi said on Monday. Addressing a press conference ahead of the Army Day, Gen Dwivedi said there is still a degree of standoff in the region and efforts are needed to restore trust between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-255173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255173","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=255173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}