Gilgit-Baltistan issue

Syllabus: General Studies Paper 2 Context: As per media reports, Pakistani authorities have finalized a law to award provisional provincial status to strategically located Gilgit-Baltistan. About Gilgit-Baltistan Gilgit-Baltistan is thenorthernmost territory administered by Pakistan, providing the country’s only territorial frontier, and thus a land route, with China, where it meets the Xinjiang Autonomous Region. It borders PoK to the south, the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the west, the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan to the north, the Xinjiang region of China, to the east and northeast, and the Indian-administered union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh to the southeast. The territory of present-day Gilgit-Baltistan became a separate administrative unit in 1970....Read More