Key Points
The revelations came even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke about the "dark clouds of coercion and confrontation casting their shadow in the Indo Pacific" during his US State Visit..
China has also supplied Pakistan with SH-15 truck-mounted howitzer guns and is believed to be setting up infrastructure along the LoC, including building underground bunkers..
Growing Chinese enclaves are believed to have been set up in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on the pretext of securing the ChinaPakistan Economic Corridor road and hydel projects built in the occupied territory...
Officials said that the recently developed SH-15 - a 155 mm truck-mounted howitzer gun known as a 'shoot and scoot' artillery weapon - has been spotted at some places along the LoC after it was displayed during Pakistan Day last year..
Pakistan had reportedly signed a contract with Chinese firm North Industries Group Corporation Limited (Norinco) for the supply of 236 SH-15s and, according to London-based Janes Defence magazine, the first batch was delivered in January 2022..
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