Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan, is expected to use the occasion of Pakistan Day, observed each year on March 23, to make a public announcement that the Pakistan-occupied territory of Gilgit-Baltistan has been incorporated into its federal system as Pakistan’s fifth provisional province. Eminent PoJK historian and political commentator Dr Shabbir Chaudhary who lives in exile in the UK writes …
In the year 1913, the United Kingdom, China and Tibet met at Shimla to sign an agreement on the alignment of the international boundary as per the map produced by the Foreign Department of British India. In the following decades, the world saw two major world wars followed by the establishment of two new countries in the subcontinent – India …
Kashmir is a story of the people; of people moving, of people not being allowed to move, of people being forced to move and, at other times, of one bunch of people preventing others from moving about freely. Brown of the British army, after handing over the charge of Gilgit Baltistan to Brig Ghansara under terms of accession of J&K, …
