Pak upset over India-UK war game in Kashmir

British and Indian forces are carrying out a three-week high-altitude military exercises in the Ladakh area of Kashmir.

High-altitude military exercises by India and Britain in mountains of the Kashmir region are not legal, Pakistan said on Monday.

British and Indian forces are carrying out a three-week exercise in the Ladakh area of the Himalayan region of Kashmir, at the heart of decades of hostility.

Pakistan had lodged a protest with both India and Britain over the exercises, which were not a “legal activity”, Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said.

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“Ladakh is part of Jammu and Kashmir, (which) is an internationally recognised disputed territory and more than anybody else, Britain should be aware of it,” Aslam told a weekly news conference.

Last week, Pakistan lodged a protest with India over a plan to open the Siachen Glacier, also in the Kashmir region, to tourist trekkers. The two sides have faced off across the glacier, known as the word’s highest battlefield, since 1984.

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