Panaji,
Oct 26  Qatar Airways Monday said it will hold an in-house
inquiry after a map of India it displayed during a presentation here
had a large part of Kashmir missing.

Asked about the misrepresentation of India's sovereign borders in the
map, the airline's chief executive officer (CEO) Akbar Al Baker said:
"We will ask the corporate communications department to look into it."

The map distinctly showed India minus the area of Pakistan-administered
Kashmir. Earlier, in an attempt to parry a query from the media about
the insensitive and incorrect representation of India's geographical
boundaries in its presentation, Baker had said that it "was not a
political map".

Publication of inaccurate external boundaries and coastline of India is
considered as an offence and attracts penalty under section 2 of the
Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 1961 and is held tantamount to questioning
the territorial integrity of the country.

Baker was in Goa to announce the launch of a Doha-Goa flight, which started operations Monday. (IANS)