{"id":371073,"date":"2020-09-01T11:39:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T06:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=371073"},"modified":"2020-09-01T12:19:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T06:49:48","slug":"ladakh-highway-closed-to-civilian-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ladakh-highway-closed-to-civilian-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladakh highway closed to civilian traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaos gripped the Srinagar-Ladakh highway on Monday following the suspension of civilian traffic, which coincided with a fresh stand-off between Indian and Chinese troops in the Pangong Tso lake area in eastern Ladakh. <\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of vehicles, many carrying essential supplies to Ladakh from Manigam to Sonamarg in Ganderbal adjoining Kargil, remained stuck. <\/p>\n<p>Some media reports claimed the road was closed to civilians owing to provocative military movement by the Chinese troops and would be exclusively used for military purposes. <\/p>\n<p>Ganderbal police chief Khalil Poswal denied that the road was closed to civilian traffic because of Ladakh developments. \u201cTraffic was suspended because of rain, but later was cleared and the vehicles are now on way (to Kargil). There is absolutely no government order (suspending civilian traffic),\u201d Poswal told this paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaos gripped the Srinagar-Ladakh highway on Monday following the suspension of civilian traffic, which coincided with a fresh stand-off between Indian and Chinese troops in the Pangong Tso lake area in eastern Ladakh. Hundreds of vehicles, many carrying essential supplies to Ladakh from Manigam to Sonamarg in Ganderbal adjoining Kargil, remained stuck. Some media reports claimed the road was closed to civilians owing to provocative military movement by the Chinese troops and would be exclusively used for military purposes. Ganderbal police chief Khalil Poswal denied that the road was closed to civilian traffic because of Ladakh developments. \u201cTraffic was suspended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,218,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}