WHO’s colour-coded map ‘separates’ J&K and Ladakh from rest of India
WHO Covid-19 scenario dashboard: The World Health Organisation (WHO) in its colour-coded map used different colours to show Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh from the rest of India on its website. It has sparked a row as it garnered angry reactions from the Indian diaspora in Britain.
As per the report, the Union Territories Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh have been marked in grey colour, separate from India which is in navy blue while the disputed border space of Aksai Chin is also in grey colour but with blue stripes, the identical colour as that of China.
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The map has been published on WHO's Covid-19 scenario dashboard that provides the pandemic numbers by the nation. The WHO clarified that it follows guidelines and practice by the United Nation regarding maps.
'China could be behind this'
Meanwhile, an Indian IT consultant, living in London, noticed the map and said that he was shocked to see the Indian map in WHO's dashboard as it showed Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh in different colours. He suggested that China could behind this as it is giving a lot of funding to the World Health Organisation.
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Even as he said that he was shocked that WHO could do this. He further said that since India was the chair it was even more important for WHO to not to indulge in such activities.
He further said that China gives huge funding to WHO and Pakistan also gets loans from China. "China is behind this as the influence of China on the WHO is very high,” he added.
Likewise, several people lashed out at the WHO saying that depicting Indian territory in different colours demonstrates it was in a nexus with China.
-PTC News
