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| Sino-Pak nexus in map war against India | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 1: What New Delhi failed to do has been done by a new school Atlas published by the Government of Punjab in Pakistan. New Delhi had failed to implement the Indian Parliament's resolution of 1994 which urged Pakistan to vacate the territory of Jammu and Kashmir it had occupied through aggression.
However, what India could not do a school Atlas published by the Government of Punjab in Pakistan has been able to do. The Atlas has shown Pakistan occupied Kashmir, besides the Gilgit and Baltistan areas as Indian territories.
The education authorities swung into action and recalled the Atlas from all elementary and high school libraries of Punjab. Over 15,000 copies of the Atlas had been delivered to school libraries.
Well besides the ongoing armed conflict and exchange of words on territorial claims and counter claims the map war is a usual practice being adopted by countries with hostile ties. On several occasions maps in Pakistan have either shown Jammu and Kashmir part of Pakistan or the occupied Kashmir as an integral part of Pakistan. At times Pakistani maps have shown Jammu and Kashmir as a disputed territory.
The contours of map war launched by Beijing is similar to the one launched by Pakistan. An online mapping service launched by China to rival 'Google Earth' shows Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin as part of Pakistan , in what is being seen as the latest move by Beijing to assert its claim over the Indian territory.
The 'Map World' displayed on the internet in Chinese language, which is already being used in I-phone and by mobile and internet users , shows Arunachal Pradesh, which Beijing claims as "southern Tibet", as part of China.
Within just four days of its launch, Apple's iPhone 4 sold 100,000 products in China, and received orders for 100,000 more. Every one of those users who logged on to Apple's latest new product would have been led to think the Indian State of Arunachal Pradesh was a part of China, if they went by the phone's maps. Apple has been told to show the entire State within China's borders, according to local media reports here on Wednesday.
A map from the latest iPhone 4, which launched in Beijing shows the entire region under Chinese territory. An image was posted on the popular China-based website the Shanghaiist. International maps usually show the region as disputed, though maps in India and in China show their respective territorial claims. 'Even as the region is administered by India, any Chinese iPhone will show that it belongs to China," the website reported.
As with other disputed territories, each Government issues maps depicting their claims in Kashmir as part of their territory, regardless of actual control. It is illegal in India to exclude all or part of Kashmir in a map. It is also illegal in Pakistan not to include the State of Jammu and Kashmir as disputed territory, as permitted by the U.N. Non-participants often use the Line of Control and the Line of Actual Control as the depicted boundaries, as is done in the CIA World Factbook, and the region is often marked out in hashmarks, although the Indian Government strictly opposes such practices. When Microsoft released a map in Windows 95 and MapPoint 2002, a controversy was raised because it did not show all of Kashmir as part of India as per Indian claim. However, all the neutral and Pakistani companies claim to follow UN's map and over 90% of all maps containing the territory of Kashmir show it as disputed territory. |
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