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US State Dept's new India map shows LoC as disputed area

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Posted: Jan 04, 2012 at 0942 hrs IST

Washington Triggering a fresh controversy, the US State Department has now posted a new map of India, which reflects the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir with dotted lines, thereby projecting it as a disputed territory.

There was no immediate response from the Indian Embassy in Washington if it was satisfied with the latest India map posted by the State Department on its website.

Following strong protest from the Ministry of External Affairs, the State Department in November had removed from its website a map of India, which showed a portion of Jammu and Kashmir as part of Pakistan.

A similar map from its travel website was also removed by the State Department.

State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland had told reporters at that time that such an error was unintentional.

She said that the map had "some inaccuracies which were associated with the boundaries of some geographic features."

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Government protesting for all the irrelevant reasons by P.V.Ravi Chandran on 09 Jan 2012

The Government of India has objected for all the trivial and irrelevant reasons. In any event that is the least of the problems with the map. The problem with the map is not so much that it depicts the line of Control separating the Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir and does not depict any line whatsoever separating Pakistan from Kashmir which is only a minor issue. The crucial issue is the fact that the creators and publishers of the map for a diabolical nefarious game plan or purpose mischievously and cantankerously depict the area in Kashmir extending from the Chhogori Peak in central Kashmir to the Kukalang pass in the Kuen Lun in northern Kashmir which has been illegally ceded to the Chinese as part of Chinese territory, and also depict India's beloved Aksai Chin in eastern Kashmir as disputed.

AN UNINTENTIONAL ERROR OF USA TO DRAW FALSE INDIAN MAP by Varghese on 04 Jan 2012

The American state department spokes person Victoria Nuland has no other job than drawing a false Indian Map, and to blame itself that this error was an unintentional error, and this time drawed an intentional ERROR Indian Map to stimulate disputes, on LOC and extended to wide north east of India, with Pak and China respectively.

Whole of the world using that wrong map by D.Bose on 04 Jan 2012

China has flooded the world market with maps, globes, globes made with semi-precious stones, digital maps with a very false map of India, where J&K, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh are out of India, but Taiwan is a part of China. There is no response from the India Government or the Indian private sector to do a tit for tat for China ( to show Tibet, East Turkistan, Manchuria, Taiwan, out of China.

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