Document Admitting Chinese Intrusion Into Ladakh Deleted From Defence Ministry Website

A document on the ministry of defence website that admitted to Chinese intrusion into Indian territory in eastern Ladakh three months after the standoff started has vanished on Thursday afternoon, two days after it was uploaded. Clicking on the document, which was on the news section of the MoD website since Tuesday, now shows ‘the URL cannot be found’. The document was the first official acknowledgement from the central government of intrusion into Indian territory by the People’s Liberation Army amid the deadlock over troop disengagement at faceoff sites near Pangong lake and Gogra despite five rounds of commander-level talks.