Critics hold up the Kongka Pass as an example and say that by sending patrol parties into the area, the IB chief (who controlled the border police) acted in contravention of Nehru’s orders. This is a deliberate, or perhaps an ignorant assumption on two counts: (1) the incident happened in October 1959 and was perhaps the catalyst for the Forward Policy being put in place a year later, and (2) Kongka Pass, where the Indians were ambushed, was in the area east of Leh, not Aksai Chin, which was the northeastern corner of Jammu and Kashmir.
