Pakistan to merge Gilgit-Baltistan with the mainland under China's pressure for completion of CPEC
Gilgit-Baltistan is probably the most crucial strategic location of Asia as it is the center where three nuclear powers India, Pakistan, China meet.
Pakistan to merge Gilgit-Baltistan with the mainland under China's pressure for completion of CPEC
Pakistan is exploiting the instability caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to create a commotion on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir. In a recent media briefing, Pakistan's Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Ali Amin Gandapur stated that Pakistani Government has decided to change the status of G-B and to make it a full-fledged province. He also said that Prime Minister Imran Khan shall soon visit the region to make a formal announcement. In the legal set-up imposed on G-B by Pakistan, there are two things to consider — first, the laws governing the region and second, government agencies administering the region. In order to keep the autonomy of the region intact and to legitimise its arguments of entitling autonomy of the region, the government of Pakistan has been ruling GB through provisional ordinances. After the Karachi Agreement of 1949, Pakistan began to rule the region through the British era Frontier Crime Regulations (FCR). These regulations were abolished in…
