India expresses concern over close China-Pakistan ties

India on Friday expressed its doubts over the growing China-Pakistan intimacy; just days ahead of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit to the subcontinent. Jiabao is expected to visit India around mid December and then proceed to Pakistan. India's Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao at a seminar on Sino-Indian relations said that Chinese role in Pakistan occupied Kashmir and its nuclear programme were some of the issues that weighed on New Delhi's relationship with Beijing. Rao pressed for greater respect for India's sensitivities and raised the issue of stapled visas given by China to Indian citizens from the restive Himalayan region of Jammu and Kashmir.