What happened to Pakistani map?
Like any other Pakistani news paper, Jang also published several pages about today’s election. While going thru the paper, I found a Pakistani map on the page which is very new for me because this map used to appear only in foriegn referrences.
This was new for me on Pakistani papers because since childhood we have been studying following map in text books specially in Pakistani Studies books.
As you can see in this map, Jammu and Kashmir is part of Pakistan’s map which is called as Occupied Kashmir in Pakistan while Pakistan’s Azad Kashmir is Indian’s Occupied Kashmir. India has always been shown this region as part of their map while I was used to of above Pakistani map while I was a student but this change is new for me, not sure it shows change in our so called Kashmir policy or… another sign of progessiveness?
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February 20th, 2008 at 11:01 am
It has gone to the dogs - just as the shape of this new map reflects.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Thanks for highlighting this crucial issue.
Adnan I don’t know but it seems that nationalism and patriotism is decreasing in us. I have always concerns when India shows our northern areas with its map. When I was child I was confused that Gilgit is our part, why India shows as its own. You know we want to increase cool relationships with India, by putting aside our dignity. The relation with India should be on equal basis, there is no need to show such kind of things that we are doing with our map to make her happy. Even we have left showing Joonagad as our part, as mentioned in second one.
If you notice our channels are also showing this map even some channels shows shaded region of Gilgit as well. If you see Program named ‘Salam Pakistan’ on Ary1world (if me right) you will surprise to see that Gilgit and AJK are no more with us. Aksai Chin is already in control of China we also have accepted that.
How far we set back our dignity?