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India tells international media to behave!
Indian guidelines require that maps showing Kashmir depict its entirety as a part of the country, and they have come down in the past on foreign publications that break the rule.
The Economist condemned the censorship. "India is meant to be a
democracy that approves of freedom of speech," John Micklethwait, the
editor-in-chief of the British magazine told the AFP. "But they take a
much more hostile attitude on this matter than either Pakistan or
China."
The Economist magazine in a recent issue has published a map of disputed Kashmir areas bordering India/Pakistan. Yet a map inside of the issue depicting the various land claims over the Kashmir made by India, Pakistan and China, was summarily stickered over by Indian officials: according to the AFP, the magazine was ordered to manually place 28,000 stickers over the offending diagram.
Indian guidelines require that maps showing Kashmir depict its entirety
as a part of the country, and they have come down in the past on foreign
publications that break the rule. Customs agents stopped the importation
and distribution of some copies of the Financial Times not too long ago,
and as recently as December entire copies of The Economist
were seized
in some cities over a similar map.
One of the
stories
in the current issue anticipated the censorship: "Although the fighting
has subsided in Kashmir, the issue remains hypersensitive: the Indian
government censors publications, including The Economist, that print
maps showing the current effective border."
Micklethwait told the AFP, "As a point of principle we are against changing our articles. So we mentioned the problem in a piece pointing out how touchy India is on this."
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