evidence: Home / External Affairs Defence Security / News / Shaksgam valley: How Pakistan 'unlawfully' ceded Indian territory to China Shaksgam valley: How Pakistan 'unlawfully' ceded Indian territory to China [...] Jaiswal said that India had never accepted the China-Pakistan border agreement of 1963, under which Pakistan tried to illegally cede this area to China. "The Shaksgam valley is a part of the territory of India. We have never accepted the so-called China-Pakistan boundary agreement of 1963 through which Pakistan unlawfully attempted to cede the area to China," Jaiswal said.