evidence: Home / External Affairs Defence Security / News / Shaksgam valley: How Pakistan 'unlawfully' ceded Indian territory to China [...] Randhir Jaiswal, spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs, in New Delhi, said that the Shaksgam valley is part of India. [...] 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.