Undivided India Map Greets Hamid Ansari in a Morocco University

The map showed Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan as part of India’s territory.

Vice President Hamid Ansari was on Thursday welcomed at a university in Morocco with a map that showed undivided India.

Coming as a major embarrassment to the Mohammad V University, the map which was put on display to welcome Ansari showed Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan as part of India’s territory.

Rabat: Indian officials have intervened. The 'expanded' Indian map with Pakistan in it has white tape over it now pic.twitter.com/tV6IJECFGI

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Ansari was there to give a lecture on ‘Accommodating Diversity in a Globalising World: The Indian Experience’. The error was noticed by a member of the Indian delegation accompanying Ansari before his arrival, following which, the map was immediately removed.

The goof-up has been attributed to a bunch of students who were managing the display system.

Ansari’s trip in Morocco is the first high-level visit to the African country after Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee went there in 1999.

At the invitation of Prime Minister Habib Essid, he will now head for a two-day visit to Tunisia.

(With agency inputs.)