Indian High Commission Secretary Pooja Kumari Jha got angry after being shown wrong map of India in Dhaka.

Dhaka, July 10. A serious case of tampering with the Indian map has come to light during an international seminar in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka. In the seminar, Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) was shown as a part of Pakistan. Seeing this, Pooja Kumari Jha, the Secretary of the Indian High Commission present there, got enraged and immediately registered her protest in strong words. He told the forum that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral and inseparable part of India and such wrong maps cannot be accepted at all.

BIISS Slides of wrong map were shown in a seminar of

In fact, a foreign affairs seminar organized by ‘Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies’ (BIISS) was organized in Dhaka. Former Bangladesh Ambassador Tariq A. attended the seminar. Karim was giving his keynote speech. During the speech, a slide was shown on the screen, in which Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh were shown in Pakistan’s territory on the map of India.

Pooja present in the audience immediately lodged a strong objection.

As soon as Indian High Commission official Pooja Kumari Jha, who was present in the viewing gallery, saw this wrong map, she immediately intervened and said, ‘The map of India shown here is completely wrong. Jammu and Kashmir is an integral and unbreakable part of India and I believe that the map presented here is not correct.

India’s Second Secretary at the @ihcdhaka Puja Jha, objected on the spot after an incorrect map of Jammu & Kashmir as part of Pakistan was displayed during a foreign policy seminar in Bangladesh.

She said that J&K is an integral and inalienable part of India and that the map was… pic.twitter.com/G3MReBRgEZ

— Abhishek Jha (@abhishekjha157) July 10, 2026

Former Ambassador Tariq A. Kareem clarified

After strong objection from India, former ambassador Tariq A. Karim tried to clarify this. He said the map was used for ‘presentational purposes only’ and was not intended to display or project actual international boundaries.

Nepal Airlines has also made a similar big mistake

By the way, this is not the first case of wrong map of India being shown in international forums or advertisements. A few months ago, Nepal’s national airline, Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC), had to face huge opposition at the international level for a similar act.

Nepal Airlines had shared a promotional route map and advertisement on its social media handles. In this graphic, the airlines had colored the Indian union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh as territories of Pakistan rather than India.

This image went viral within no time on social media. Indian users had termed it as ‘map aggression’ of Nepal Airlines. After this, #BoycottNepalAirlines started trending on social media and the Indian Foreign Ministry was demanded to lodge a strong diplomatic protest on this. Later Nepal Airlines had to publicly and formally apologize for this major lapse.