Bill to Grant Provisional Provincial Status to Gilgit-Baltistan

Recently, Pakistani authorities have reportedly finalised a law (26th Constitutional Amendment Bill), to award provisional provincial status to strategically located Gilgit-Baltistan.

  • It is strategically located on the north western corner of the Union Territory of Ladakh, bordering Pakistan, Afghanistan and China.
  • It is one of the disputed territories of India.
  • It got its present name only with the Gilgit-Baltistan (Empowerment and Self-Governance) Order, 2009, which replaced the Northern Areas Legislative Council with the Legislative Assembly.
  • It is an autonomous region ruled mostly by executive orders. Till 2009, the region was called Northern Areas.
  • Gilgit-Baltistan is the northernmost territory administered by ....
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