The three men, identified as Adil, Salamo and Abdul Khaliq, were nabbed inside the Indian territory on June 12 near Sultanchku and it took nearly 10 days for the authorities to make them give their name, official sources said.
All the three men are Sunni Muslims aged between 18 and 23 with fair complexion but their language was not comprehensible, they said.
The three men -- one of whom is one-eyed -- were at present in the custody at Murgo post and efforts were on to comprehend their language which did not have any similarity with either Chinese or Balti spoken in Pakistan-occupied- Kashmir's Baltistan.
The three men, who are well built, cannot be interrogated until they are brought to Leh town where translators could be used to understand their language, the sources said.
There was a possibility that the language could be Yarkandi spoken in Xinjiang province, close to Pakistan- occupied-Kashmir and touches DBO tip in north of Ladakh. The area has a huge Uyghur population.
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