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Gilgit Baltistan City of Light

Gilgit-Baltistan History   Formerly known as the Northern Areas, Gilgit-Baltistan is a region that Pakistan administers as an administrative territory. It is located in the northern part of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the source of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and between India and China since a little while later. It is the most northern territory under the Pakistani administration. Azad Kashmir to the south, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the west, Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor to the north, China's Xinjiang region to the east and northeast, and the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh governed by India to the southeast . Gilgit-Baltistan is a part of Kashmir, a wider area that has been the subject of a protracted conflict between Pakistan and India. The area is described as a bordering region of Azad Kashmir by the UN and other international organizations. Kashmir is governed by Pakistan, according to organizations. Six tim...