Since 1947, Kashmir is a disputed territory between Pakistan and India which is a well-recognized fact world-wide and there are certain UN resolutions on this matter also.

We recently saw how Palestine remained an unnamed state and was shown as a part of Israel. Similarly, Gilgit Blatistan and Azad Kashmir region is now being shown as owned by India. Even the K2, which is on the Pakistan-China border, is listed as a part of India. Among other skyscrapers, Nanga Parbat has also been transferred to India in the maps.

Google is clearly making a business-based decision for showing legal maps in countries where it is registered. India for example, where a local version is available, entire Kashmir — even the Pakistani and Chinese parts — are shown as part of India.

For Pakistan however, since they don’t have a registered office here, they are not obligated to show Pakistani controlled Kashmir as part of Pakistan.

Which is by the way a senseless decision. So for example if India claims to have control over Bangladesh — and if Google is registered in India, which it is — then will they show Bangladesh as part of India? Just because India thinks so and because they have registered presence in India?

This version of the map is available on Indian Google Maps, i.e. when you access the mapping service through its Indian domain ‘co.in’.

These clearly show the malicious intentions of some organisations to coerce history and a slap in face to UN.

We would like UN to take action in this regard as well as Google Inc. to show the factual position instead of trying to please "SOME PEOPLE".