Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's new book has become the latest publication to trip over the cartographic tangle of the India-Pakistan border.
Publisher Random House has recalled all advance copies of the book in India and delayed its release here due to errors in a map of the two countries at the time of the Partition, which wrongly showed Pakistan-occupied Kashmir shaded in the same colour as that of Pakistan.
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Sources at the publishing house say the book is now likely to be released next week after the offending pages are replaced with a map that India considers accurate.
Centre's displeasure
In this case, Random House seems to have taken pre-emptive action before any official complaint. The international media often faces the brunt of the government's displeasure, with
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Incidentally, Random House faced a similar problem in Pakistan a few years ago, when the establishment there objected to a map which they considered inaccurate in journalist Nicholas Schmidle's book titled To Live or To Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan .