The coronavirus pandemic may have blurred international boundaries and shrunk the world into one big infirmary, but not so much for Nepal, one of India바카라s neighbours and closest allies for decades. In fact, the Himalayan country has touched off a raw nerve by deciding to publish new maps that include areas of dispute with India. And for good measure, Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli declared that the 바카라Indian virus looks more lethal than Chinese and Italian.바카라 This round of acrimony began at the Federal Parliament of Nepal recently where the country바카라s President Bidhya Devi Bhandari made the announcement about the new maps that will incorporate all the disputed territories바카라Limpiyadhura, Kalapani and Lipulekh.
Last year, New Delhi published a new map that showed Kalapani within its borders, a move protested by Kathmandu. India and Nepal share an 1,800 km open border. Nepal said it has 바카라consistently maintained바카라 that as per the Sugauli Treaty of 1816, 바카라all the territories east of Kali (Mahakali) river, including Limpiyadhura, Kalapani and Lipulekh, belong to Nepal바카라.
The Lipulekh Pass is claimed by Nepal based on the Sugauli Treaty between the Himalayan nation (then a kingdom) and British East India Company in 1816 to define its western border with India. Kathmandu also claims the highly strategic areas of Limpiyadhura and Kalapani, although Indian troops have been deployed there since New Delhi fought a war with China in 1962.
India reacted sharply after the Nepal government released the revised map. The foreign ministry asked Kathmandu to refrain from such 바카라unjustified cartographic assertion바카라. All the land in Lipulekh, Kalapani and Nabhidhang on the border traditionally belongs to the residents of Garbiyang and Gunji villages of Dharchula sub-division in Uttarakhand바카라s Pithoragarh district.
The inauguration of a road linking Lipulekh pass with Dharchula earlier this May triggered fresh tension, with Nepal claiming that the area fell on its side of the border. But a PTI report says villagers of Garbiyang assert that their ancestors used to cultivate the land in Kalapani before the Sino-Indian war in 1962. The cultivation stopped when border trade with China through Lipulekh pass ended following the 1962 conflict.
바카라India has deployed its troops in Kalapani since 1962 and our rulers in the past hesitated to raise the issue,바카라 Nepal PM Oli said. Speaking in parliament, Oli also held India responsible for the spread of COVID-19 in Nepal, saying the infection was 바카라more lethal바카라 among the people coming from the neighbouring country. 바카라Indian virus looks more lethal than Chinese and Italian now. More are getting infected,바카라 he said.
