India’s Zojila Tunnel Shores up Defense Posture in Himalayas

India’s Zojila Tunnel Shores up Defense Posture in Himalayas

By: Majid MaqboolOn June 9, India opened a strategically vital 13.15 km tunnel linking the Kashmir region to Ladakh beneath the 3,529-meter Zojila pass, the world’s longest single-tube bi-directional road tunnel at the world’s highest altitude, providing permanent, all-weather reinforcement of its sovereignty along the Line of Actual Control demarking the border with China, reducing travel time from three hours to 20 minutes. It is designed to a…