{"id":16839,"date":"2020-05-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2020\/05\/11\/nepal-and-india-in-row-over-road-to-hindu-holy-site-in-tibet\/"},"modified":"2020-05-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T12:00:00","slug":"nepal-and-india-in-row-over-road-to-hindu-holy-site-in-tibet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2020\/05\/11\/nepal-and-india-in-row-over-road-to-hindu-holy-site-in-tibet\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal and India in Row Over Road to Hindu Holy Site in Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/regional\/2020\/05\/10\/nepal-and-india-in-row-over-road-to-hindu-holy-site-in-tibet\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/apicms.thestar.com.my\/uploads\/images\/2020\/05\/10\/676024.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%;object-fit:scale-down;\" \/><br \/>NEW DELHI\/BEIJING\/KATHMANDU, May 10, 2020 (The Star): Nepal has asked India &#8220;to refrain from carrying out any activity inside its territory&#8221; after expressing regret over New Delhi&#8217;s inauguration of a link road in the disputed territory at a strategic three-way junction with Nepal and Tibet at Lipulekh Pass. &#8220;This unilateral act runs against the understanding reached between the two countries including at the level of prime ministers that a solution to boundary issues would be sought through negotiation,&#8221; Nepal&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Saturday. Nepal&#8217;s statement comes a day after Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a 50-mile link road to Kailash-Mansarovar Yatra Route through Lipulekh Pass, a disputed territory currently under control of Indian border security forces. Kailash-Mansarovar is an important Hindu religious site in Tibet.<\/p>\n<p>Replying to Nepal&#8217;s statement, India&#8217;s Ministry of External Affairs on Saturday said that the road &#8220;lies completely within the territory of India.&#8221; &#8220;India is committed to resolving outstanding boundary issues through diplomatic dialogue and in spirit of our close and friendly bilateral relations with Nepal,&#8221; a ministry spokesperson said. Kathmandu has long maintained claims over the highly strategic areas of Limpiyadhura, Kalapani and Lipulekh although the areas have been policed by Indian troops since India fought a brief war with China in 1962.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NEW DELHI\/BEIJING\/KATHMANDU, May 10, 2020 (The Star): Nepal has asked India &#8220;to refrain from carrying out any activity inside,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}