‘Jammu and Kashmir is India’s’: Diplomat calls out ‘incorrect’ Indian map at Bangladesh occasion
India objected to the misrepresentation of its map at an occasion in Bangladesh, with a diplomat from the Indian Excessive Fee in Dhaka mentioning that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral a part of India.
Second secretary Puja Jha was attending a international coverage seminar titled “Rebuilding Belief, Renewing Regional Integration: Pathways for Revitalising SAARC” on the Bangladesh Institute of Worldwide and Strategic Research (BIISS) in Dhaka on Monday, the place former Bangladesh Excessive Commissioner to India, Ahmed Tariq Karim, was giving a presentation. Bangladesh’s State Minister for International Affairs, Shama Obaed, attended the occasion because the chief visitor.
Noticing that the map confirmed Jammu and Kashmir as part of Pakistan, Puja Jha interrupted the presentation and mentioned that it was “factually incorrect”.
“The map of India depicted right here is inaccurate. Jammu and Kashmir is an integral a part of India, and I believe the map introduced right here just isn’t right,” the second secretary mentioned.
Following the objection, ambassador Karim tried to make clear that the map was used for “representational functions solely” and “does not undertaking precise boundaries”.
“I perceive, sir, however Jammu and Kashmir is an integral a part of India, and it’s misrepresented right here. So I simply wished to level it out,” Jha replied.
Ambassador Karim appeared to agree with the stance after asking whether or not the diplomat was from India, to which Jha gave her full introduction.
“Level famous,” he mentioned and continued together with his presentation.
Bangladesh minister bats for deeper regional cooperation
In the meantime, talking on the seminar, Bangladesh’s State Minister for International Affairs, Shama Obaed, underlined the significance of deeper regional cooperation inside South Asia and urged bridging the hole between potential and efficiency.
She listed key measures to revive the physique and mentioned, “The organisation wants stronger implementation capability, larger monetary power, more practical specialised mechanisms and a sensible tradition of follow-up.”
Considerably, Obaed talked about that Bangladesh is mulling that after dialog with member nations of SAARC, it might coordinate nearer cooperation between the companion nations for “convening of a senior officers assembly and the potential of a particular session of the Council of Ministers.”
“It’s within the spirit that we’re contemplating a calibrated set of confidence-building initiatives within the coming months, topic to session with the SAARC member states. They could embrace engagement with the Ambassadors and Excessive Commissioners of SAARC nations primarily based in Dhaka, in addition to consultations with the SAARC Secretariat in Kathmandu concerning the convening of a senior officers assembly and the potential of a particular session of the Council of Ministers,” Obaed mentioned on the seminar.
She added, “We can also think about wider diplomatic outreach of the very best diplomatic stage.”
