10+ Kashmir Disputed Map

India and Pakistan both claim Kashmira disputed region of some. The region is divided among three countries in a territorial dispute.

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According to the Washington Post the borders on Googles online maps display Kashmir as fully under Indian control.

Kashmir disputed map. Relief shown by shading. Hence the US-led major powers must take action on Indian negative measures as Kashmir remains the nuclear flashpoint in South Asia. Pakistan controls Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir in the northwest portion.

Pakistan has now also changed the nomenclature for the Indian part of Kash - mir. Congress leader Shashi Tharoor shares map of India with part of Kashmir given to Pakistan ironically calls it attempt to save India Reacting to the report a company spokesperson said Google has a consistent and global policy to depict disputed regions and features fairly showing claims made by the disputed or claiming nations on its global domain. Separated into two maps the competing claims for Kashmir become a lot clearer.

The map clearly identifies occupied Kashmir as a disputed territory and states that the final status will be decided in line with the relevant United Nations Security Council UNSC resolutions. San Francisco February 15 Google Maps shows Kashmir as part of India -- as long as you view it from within the borders of the country -- but for people outside the country the outlines of the regio. The previously used term disputed territory was replaced by I ndian Illegally Occupied Jammu Kashmir.

India controls the central southern and eastern portions Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Pakistan on the other hand has made it illegal to share a map of Pakistan which does not mark out the state of Jammu and Kashmir as a disputed territory. Both maps show all borders as white lines except for the crucial Line of Control that traverses the disputed area.

Due to Indias Criminal Law Amendment Act 1961 it is illegal in India to exclude all or part of Kashmir from a map or to publish any map that differs from those of the Survey of India. Elsewhere users see the regions snaking outlines as a dotted line acknowledging the dispute. On the offi - cial map the reference to the UN.

As with other disputed territories each government issues maps depicting their claims in Kashmir territory regardless of actual control. And the Peoples Republic of China controls the northeastern portion the Trans-Karakoram tract and Aksai Chin. India administers the area south of the Line of Control.

Pakistan Foreign Office said in a statement that Islamabad rejects these political maps which were incompatible with the United Nations UN mapsno move by India could change the disputed status of Jammu and KashmirIndias expansionist intention has manifested itself in another dangerous move of formally annexing Indian-held Kashmir as it has come up with a fanciful new map. Khan said the new map is the first step toward the resolution of the long-standing Kashmir dispute with India and emphasised that Pakistan believes in a political solution. Pakistani territory to indicate that Kashmir is a disputed territory as defined by UN resolutions.

763634AI C00002 1-04 Includes inset location map. Shows boundaries and disputed areas. From Pakistan Kashmir appears disputed while from India it appears as a part of India the Post report said adding that Google Maps changes disputed borders based on what country you search.

Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinentUntil the mid-19th century the term Kashmir denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal RangeToday the term encompasses a larger area that includes the Indian-administered territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh the Pakistani-administered territories of Azad Kashmir and. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. For the global audience Kashmir is marked with a dotted line which supposed to indicate that Kashmir is a disputed region.

If you are using Google maps in India youll see that the whole of Kashmir is marked as Indian territoryBut the moment you leave the country your map will also change. From Pakistan Kashmir appears disputed while from India it appears as a part of India the Post report said. Nevertheless Indias Kashmir map issue shows that New Delhi is quite non-serious in settling the Kashmir dispute with Islamabad.

This is in keeping with the practices. The greater region of Kashmir borders the Pakistani provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa formerly known as North-West Frontier Province and Punjab in the west the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan to the north the disputed area of Aksai Chin formerly part of Ladakh the Chinese Autonomous regions of Xinjiang and Tibet in the east and the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh to the south. Khan said the new map is the first step toward the resolution of the long-standing Kashmir dispute with India and emphasised that Pakistan believes in a political solution.

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