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India-Pakistan
Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan 'province': Will it make the Kashmir dispute irrelevant?
2020-11-15
[DW] Pak PM Khan has promised to grant provisional provincial status to Gilgit-Baltistan, which is part of the larger Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
region. Activists say the move is akin to India's decision to integrate its part of Kashmir.


Earlier this month, Pak authorities announced their decision to grant Gilgit-Baltistan — an autonomous region that Islamabad administers in the Pakistain's north — the status of a full province.
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