India, Feb. 11 -- The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has deleted a post on X that featured a map of India depicting the entire region of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh - including Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Aksai Chin - as Indian territory.

The graphic, shared on February 7 as part of an announcement on the India-US interim trade framework agreement, drew widespread attention as it departed from the longstanding American practice of marking PoK and Aksai Chin as disputed areas.

The map illustrated India's proposed tariff reductions on US exports under the bilateral trade understanding.

However, unlike previous US government maps that used demarcation lines to indicate disputed regions, the now-removed gr...