History: Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan

Outline:

1. Backgrounder

2. British and Dogra rule

3. Revolt against the Maharaja

4. Accession to Pakistan

5. GB’s changing paradigms of geopolitics

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Every year on November 1, the region of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) officially celebrates its independence from Kashmir’s Dogra family rule. Gilgit was liberated on November 1, 1947 while Baltistan was freed in 1948 as a result of a bloody freedom war.