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NEW DELHI : India and China have "slightly" pulled back their troops from three out of the four confrontation sites along the line of actual control in eastern Ladakh as a confidence-building measure ahead of another round of military talks to begin from Wednesday-Thursday.
But there has been no change as yet in the ground position at the main face-off site on the northern bank of Pangong Tso (Tso means lake), where Chinese soldiers have occupied the entire area from "Finger-4 to 8" (mountainous spurs separated by a distance of 8-km) to block all Indian patrols since early-May.
Official sources on Tuesday said the "limited mutual troop pull-back" at the confrontation sites in the Galwan Valley region (patrolling points 14 and 15) and Gogra-Hot Springs area over the last couple of days is a clear signal that the actual disengagement in the Himalayan region is now firmly on the cards.
Indian and Chinese troops,...