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Australian website doesn't show Kashmir, Arunachal as part of India
Sunday June 12, 2011 08:11:58 PM,
IANS
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Sydney: An Australian
government website has wrongly portrayed the map of India -
omitting the states of Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh -
leading to the "strong displeasure" of the migrant Indian
community.
The wrong map was put out on the website of the Department of
Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) in its country profiles
section.
The Council of Indian Australians Inc (CIA), the body representing
the Indian-Australian community in New South Wales, said in a
statement that it has "expressed its strongest displeasure at the
incorrect map of India in the DIAC's website, which excludes Jammu
and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh as parts of India".
The Council, based in North Ryde, near Sydney, has asked the DIAC
to "rectify the incorrect Indian map" on its website.
"The CIA Inc wishes to bring this to the attention of the
government of Australia and urges the DIAC to rectify this
incorrect map and display the revised map showing correct
boundaries," the statement said.
"Jammu and Kashmir is an integral, inseparable and inalienable
part of India and will always remain so. A brief review of the
history shows J&K became an inalienable part of India on 25th
October, 1947 when the King of J&K Maharaja Hari Singh signed the
'Instrument of accession' with India."
"This Instrument was executed between India's then Governor
General Lord Louis Mountbatten and Maharaja Hari Singh on 27th
October, 1947. All rulers of States and Kingdoms in India were
entitled to choose one of three options - join India, join
Pakistan or remain independent - at the time of Indian
independence in 1947."
"J&K joined India in 1947," the statement said, underlining the
sentence.
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