Abstract
ABSTRACT For more than seven decades, since the partition of India and the first conflict over Kashmir in 1947–1948, the former Northern Territories, renamed Gilgit-Baltistan in 2009, have remained in a constitutional limbo. Under the control of Pakistan, but not part of its federal structure, these Himalayan lands, strategically located on the road to China, are a prisoner of the Kashmir dream. As Pakistan still refers to the old UN resolutions for solving the Kashmir dispute with India, Gilgit-Baltistan has not been made a province of Pakistan, despite many promises to do so. Gilgit-Baltistan was overlooked in the constitutional developments around the 18th Amendment. The latest official proposal in 2020, to grant GB ‘provisional provincial status’ was supposed to keep open the option of a plebiscite on Kashmir. However, this initiative stalled with Pakistan being engulfed in multiple crises. These complex circumstances create a conundrum whereby the political development of the region is held back, while divergent views on the future of the region are debated.
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