On November 1, Pakistan announced its decision to grant Gilgit-Baltistan, an autonomous region it administers in the country’s far north, the status of a full province. The region is also claimed by ...

Media reports last week suggested that Pakistan may declare Gilgit-Baltistan — a part of Kashmir administered by Pakistan as an autonomous territory but also claimed by India — to be a full-fledged ...

Wearing a traditional feathered wool hat of the region, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is shown on November 1 in Gilgit announcing the new provisional status for the region. (Associated Press of ...

The status of Pakistan’s far northern region of Gilgit-Baltistan -- part of the larger disputed region of Kashmir -- has been in limbo for decades. Pakistan attained the remote, mountainous area in a ...

The Karachi Agreement of April 1949 is criticized as a deceptive power transfer enabling Pakistan to assert control over ...

RECENTLY President Asif Zardari, with a view to addressing the long-standing demands of the people of the Northern Areas, signed the Gilgit-Baltistan (Empowerment and Self-Governance) Order, 2009.

The Karachi Agreement, signed secretly in 1949, gave Pakistan control over Gilgit-Baltistan and other occupied parts of Jammu ...

Elections in Gilgit-Baltistan will be held on January 24, 2026, after the Assembly completed its five-year tenure last month. The notification for the poll date was issued today by the GB Council.

GILGIT: Gilgit Baltistan (GB) Chief Minister (CM) Hafeezur Rehman said Wednesday that the federal government would give Rs100 billion for development of the province. He said around Rs100 billion was ...

Prime Minister Imran Khan has angered India after declaring that part of the contested Kashmir region will provisionally become a full province of Pakistan. Pakistan has administered the area now ...

ISLAMABAD-- Gunmen have stormed a hotel in northern Pakistan. Police say nine foreign tourists and one Pakistani were killed in a raid early on June 23 in Gilgit-Baltistan Province. Ukraine's ...