Twitter shows Jammu in Pak; MEA to have word

New Delhi, February 18

Social media platform Twitter today made a faux pas in its location-tagging service that showed Jammu as part of Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir as being in China. The External Affairs Ministry said it will take up the matter with the micro-blogging site.

“I am sure this will be taken up,” said MEA spokesperson Vikas Swarup.

A Twitter spokesperson did not comment on the gaffe but sources in the company said the problem had been identified and it would be resolved soon.

While posting a new tweet, Twitter gives an option to the user to tag his or her location, wherein the microblogging site was today found to be showing Jammu as being part of Pakistan. Besides, a user seeking to tag Jammu and Kashmir as a location was being shown the option of this place being in “People's Republic of China”.

A number of users criticised the site for the gaffe, with some terming it being biased against India. — PTI