I was going through some of my news feeds when i found this news story from the 23rd of November, which was quite interesting :
"Redrawn map has Pakistan wary A redrawn map of South Asia has been making the rounds among Pakistani elites. It shows their country truncated, reduced to an elongated..." <http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008425673_pakistan23.html> Now its just upto some indian vernacular daily (maybe the marathi newspaper published by the shiv sena is a good choice...) to reprint the story with the redrawn map - and you can bet there will be some people in pakistan who cannot read the text of the article, but will panic on seeing the map. On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Whatever these guys are smoking, it must be powerful stuff. Does anybody >> know enough Urdu to figure out the context? > The page on the website is actually >> http://express.com.pk/epaper/index.aspx?Issue=NP_LHE&Page=BACK_PAGE&Date=20081203&Pageno=8&View=1%20id= >> The maps being referred to: >> >> 2012: >> http://express.com.pk/images/NP_LHE/20081203/Sub_Images/1100533603-1.jpg >> >> 2020: >> http://express.com.pk/images/NP_LHE/20081203/Sub_Images/1100533604-1.jpg > > > Funny how even by 2020 erstwhile East Pakistan remains unclaimed. This is > indicative of how strong the anti-India sentiment is. I don't think the > popular Pakistani sentiment then grudges Bangladesh it's freedom, but it > certainly hates the Indian intervention a whole lot. Notice how the Hindu > state of Nepal also remains unblemished. >
