What is the significance of new political map of Pakistan?
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Prime Minister Imran Khan released a new 'political map' of Pakistan but it could boomrang on ... the impact of PM Khan's cartographic hallucination on India-Pakistan ties is very significant.
Pakistan’s new political map is an exercise in political absurdity, the Ministry of External Affairs said after Prime Minister Imran Khan launched it on Tuesday which included the entire Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir and parts of Gujarat, including Junagarh.
“This is an exercise in political absurdity, laying untenable claims to territories in the Indian State of Gujarat and our Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and of Ladakh. These ridiculous assertions have neither legal validity nor international credibility,” a press statement of the Ministry of External Affairs said.
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the document firms up its claims on Sir Creek and the Siachen glacier. During the presentation on the map following a Cabinet meeting in Islamabad, the Pakistan Prime Minister referred to the first anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370 which removed the special status to Jammu and Kashmir and said, the map is an expression of Pakistan’s long nurtured aspiration. “Our aim is Srinagar,” said Mr. Qureshi. The new political map has also removed the reference of Federally Administered Tribal Area and has depicted that area as part of the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It also leaves an undefined section towards Ladakh which according to Mr. Qureshi will be resolved in future.