Srinagar, April 22: A CBSE book for Class III in Kashmir has an India map that has a part marked as “Azad Kashmir”, a label Islamabad uses for a part of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

The supposed oversight has prompted the Delhi-based publisher who printed the books to recall all the copies.

The map is in a book of “geographical-historical” studies, used in many schools in Jammu and Kashmir and outside and in all army-run schools.

While one portion of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir — that is the Indian official label for the area — was marked “Azad Kashmir”, another part that Pakistan calls Gilgit-Baltistan was marked as “Northern Areas”.

Till 2009, Pakistan used to call Gilgit-Baltistan region Northern Areas.

New Delhi treats Gilgit-Baltistan and other parts of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir as an integral part of the country.

The book was printed by a publishing house at Karol Bagh in New Delhi. A principal of an army-run school in Srinagar claimed the “publisher has recalled all the books”.

One page of the book says it reads “strictly according to the latest syllabus prescribed by the CBSE” board in New Delhi.

The board comes under the Union human resources development ministry and the oversight may turn out to be an embarrassment for the Centre.

Army sources said the “mistake” was first noticed in schools run by the force in parts of Jammu.

“It was being taught in several schools from April 1, when the current session began,” an official said.

An army officer said the matter has been brought into the notice of “higher-ups”.

“I think it is the CBSE that needs to clarify and not we (the army). They approve the syllabus and it is taught in many schools, not just army schools,” he said.

Pakistan-occupied Kashmir’s total area, including Gilgit-Baltistan is 78,114sqkm. Another 42,685sqkm is under Chinese occupation.

The textbook gaffe has come months after the Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education portrayed policemen as “tyrants” in a Class I book taught in schools across the state.

The police registered a case charging state school board authorities with sedition, criminal conspiracy and defamation.

Before that, the police had arrested Noor Ahmad Bhat, a lecturer of a government college, in 2010 for framing a question paper that the security forces said was “seditious”.