❖ India has lodged a strong complaint with China over construction work in the Shaksgam valley.

❖ It is described as an "illegal" effort to change the situation on the ground.

❖ Shaksgam valley is a strategically situated region which is now part of Pakistanoccupied Kashmir (PoK).

❖ The Shaksgam valley, or the Trans Karakoram Tract, is part of the Hunza-Gilgit Region of PoK.

❖ It is bordered by the Xinjiang Province of the People's Republic of China to the north.

❖ The northern areas of PoK are to its west and south and the Siachen Glacier region to the east.

❖ In 1963, Pakistan ceded the Shaksgam valley to China when it signed a border agreement with Beijing to settle their border disputes.

❖ India had never accepted the China-Pakistan border agreement of 1963, under which Pakistan tried to illegally cede this area to China.