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Gilgit-Baltistan

geography. Also Northern Areas

The northernmost territory administered by Pakistan, formerly the Northern Areas, bordering China, Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor and Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, and home to K2 and the Karakoram Highway. The Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self-Governance Order of 2009 gave it its present name, an elected assembly and a chief minister, with a governor appointed by Pakistan’s President. Pakistan treats its final status as linked to the Kashmir dispute.^1,2

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Sources

1. 1 Freedom in the World 2012: Pakistani Kashmir. Freedom House (via Refworld), 2012. Reference
2. 2 Gilgit-Baltistan autonomy. Dawn, 2009. Press