evidence: NEW DELHI: India has registered a protest with Beijing for constructing a road in the Shaksgam Valley, which was ceded to China by Pakistan in 1963, asserting it is a part of Indian territory. [...] India maintains that under the 1963 agreement, Pakistan illegally ceded 5,180 sq km of Indian territory in Shaksgam Valley from areas illegally occupied by Pakistan in Union Territory of Ladakh to China. It has also maintained China continues to be in illegal occupation of approximately 38,000 sq kms of Indian territory in Ladakh for the past six decades.