NSA Ajit Doval Walks Out Of SCO Meet After Pakistan Deliberately Displays Map Claiming J&K, Junagarh

National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval on Tuesday (15 September) walked out of a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting hosted by Russia after Pakistan deliberately displayed a fictitious map to claim Kashmir and Junagarh as its territories, The Tribune has reported.

Doval walked out of the virtual meeting in protest after consulting with the Russian NSA who was the host of the event.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said that, "At the meeting of National Security Advisers of member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization today, hosted by the Chair of the SCO (Russia), the Pakistani NSA deliberately projected a fictitious map that Pakistan has recently been propagating".

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in August had unveiled what he claimed as the new “political map of Pakistan” identifying Jammu and Kashmir and Junagadh in Gujarat as its territories.

Khan had said the new political map has been approved by his cabinet and will now be the "official map" used in schools and colleges.

Dismissing the ‘so-called political map’ released by Imran Khan, India’s foreign ministry had said that it demonstrated Pakistan’s obsession with territorial aggrandisement supported by cross-border terrorism.