Leh, a pivotal stop on the Silk Road, played a critical role in facilitating trade and cultural exchanges between Kashmir, Central Asia, and Turkestan (today China’s Xinjiang region).

Singh reiterated that it has been India's "consistent and principled position" that the entire region of Jammu & Kashmir and ...

India has officially split the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, a move that gives the government in New Delhi greater control over the disputed Muslim-majority region.