Pakistan on Tuesday reportedly skipped a meeting under the aegis of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) here after India raised objection to Pakistan map incorrectly depicting borders of Jammu & Kashmir.
The meeting pertained to military medicine specialists under the SCO and when India asked Pakistan to refrain from showing its map, its delegation decided not to attend it.
India had reportedly urged Pakistan not to show the map or not attend the seminar here, it was learnt. India has in the past also raised objections to Pakistan’s inaccurate maps in the SCO meetings.
In September, 2020, India walked out of a virtual meeting of national security advisers (NSA) of member-states of the SCO after the Pakistani representative projected a map that inaccurately depicted the borders of the two countries.
“At the meeting of the national security advisers (NSAs) of member-states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), hosted by the chair of the SCO (Russia), the Pakistani NSA deliberately projected a fictitious map that Pakistan has recently been propagating,” said External Affairs Ministry had then said.
“This was in blatant disregard to the advisory by the host against it and in violation of the norms of the meeting. After consultation with the host, the Indian side left the meeting in protest at that juncture,” it said.
