Gilgit-Baltistan

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Constitutional status

Was Gilgit- Baltistan part of Jammu & Kashmir in August 1947? Pakistan has tried to create the fiction that it was not.
Thousands of pre- 1947 maps of India, lying in the archives of Pakistan, Gilgit- Baltistan and neutral online archives say otherwise.
This, for instance, is a map of India, showing the average rainfall in India 1921-31. It has been taken from the opening pages of the [https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=10&ved=0ahUKEwjl6e7_i6nbAhUKrY8KHRfDAh4QFgiIATAJ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdspace.gipe.ac.in%2Fxmlui%2Fbitstream%2Fhandle%2F10973%2F19000%2FGIPE-016956-Contents.pdf%3Fsequence%3D2%26isAllowed%3Dy&usg=AOvVaw3lzR7QI6o0DmF8aA27oimj Census of India, 1931, Vol. I INDIA Part 1-Report

See graphic, '...Map of India, showing the average rainfall in India 1921-31. It has been taken from the opening pages of the Census of India, 1931, Vol. I INDIA Part 1-Report'

British view: Gilgit-Baltistan part of J&K

Gilgit-Baltistan part of J&K, Pakistan in illegal occupation: Motion tabled in British Parliament, Mar 27, 2017: The Times of India

HIGHLIGHTS

Resolution passed in British Parliament said Gilgit-Baltistan a legal and constitutional part of J&K

House condemns Islamabad's announcement declaring Gilgit-Baltistan as its fifth province

People in the region 'are denied their fundamental rights,' resolution says

LONDON: A motion was tabled in the British Parliament condemning Islamabad's announcement+ declaring Gilgit-Baltistan as its fifth frontier+ , saying the region is a legal and constitutional part of Jammu & Kashmir illegally occupied by Pakistan since 1947.

The motion which was tabled on March 23 and sponsored by Conservative Party leader Bob Blackman, stated that Pakistan, by making such an announcement, is implying its attempt to annex the already disputed area. "Gilgit-Baltistan is a legal and constitutional part of the state of Jammu & Kashmir, India, which is illegally occupied by Pakistan since 1947, and where people are denied their fundamental rights including the right of freedom of expression," the motion read.

It was further noted that the attempts to change the demography of the region was in violation of State Subject Ordinance and the 'forced and illegal construction' of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor+ (CPEC) further aggravated and interfered with the disputed territory . Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign affairs ministry has said that Beijing was ready to work with Islamabad to take forward the CPEC to benefit the people of both countries.

The economic corridor is a $51.5 billion project that aims to connect Kashgar, in China's western province of Xinjiang, with the port of Gwadar+ in the Pakistani province of Balochistan.

Pakistani attempts to merge Gilgit-Baltistan as a province

The reasons why

Gilgit-Baltistan, some facts; The Times of India, March 18, 2017

See 'Why Pakistani wants to merge Gilgit-Baltistan as a province'