(TibetanReview.net, May04’26) – India has on May 3 rejected Nepal’s objection to its plan, in agreement with China, to organize its Kailash Mansarovar Yatra (pilgrimage) in Tibet this year also for its citizens through the Lipulekh Pass. The pass is located at a tri-junction of the Tibet-Nepal-India borders. Nepal asserts that the pass, which is part of India’s Uttarakhand state, belongs to it and has objected to the fact that it was not consulted.
India has called Nepal’s “unilateral artificial enlargement” of territorial claims “untenable”, while pointing out that the pilgrimage route has been in use since 1954.
“India’s position in this regard had be...





