Monday, September 14, 2009

IntelliBriefs: GILGIT-BALTISTAN: THE AQ KHAN PROLIFERATION HIGHWAY---PART I

  • tags: no_tag

    • On September 7,2009, President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan signed what was called the Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self-Governance Order 2009, purporting to introduce administrative, political, financial and judicial reforms in the Northern Areas of Jammu & Kashmir, which has been under Pakistani occupation since 1947-48. The order re-names the Northern Areas as Gilgit-Baltistan, thereby seeking to obliterate the linkage of the area with Jammu & Kashmir.