Khunjerab Pass ( elevation ) is a high mountain pass in the Karakoram Mountains in a strategic position on the northern border of Pakistan's Gilgit – Baltistan region within the region of Kashmir and on the southwest border of the Xinjiang region of China.

* Gilgit – Baltistan

Ninth-highest: Nanga Parbat, a dangerous mountain to climb, is in the Kashmiri region of Gilgit – Baltistan in Pakistan

Today Kashmir denotes a larger area that includes the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir ( which consists of the divisions: the Kashmir valley, Jammu and Ladakh ), the Pakistani-administered Gilgit – Baltistan and the Azad Kashmir provinces, and the Chinese-administered regions of Aksai Chin and Trans-Karakoram Tract.

** History of Gilgit – Baltistan

* Gilgit – Baltistan, Pakistan

In Pakistan they are concentrated in the west and northwest, inhabiting mainly Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas ( FATA ), as well as parts of Balochistan, Gilgit – Baltistan, Kashmir as well as Mianwali and Attock districts of Punjab.

The Johnson Line is not used west of the Karakoram Pass, where China adjoins Pakistan-administered Gilgit – Baltistan.

It is spoken by some 87, 000 ( as of 2000 ) Burusho people in the Hunza, Nagar, Yasin, and Ishkoman valleys, and some parts of the Gilgit valley, in Gilgit – Baltistan ; and by about 300 in Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, India.

* Gilgit – Baltistan

The Karakoram, or Karakorum (;, Kārākōrama ; ), is a large mountain range spanning the borders between Pakistan, India and China, located in the regions of Gilgit – Baltistan ( Pakistan ), Ladakh ( India ), and Xinjiang region, ( China ).

The majority of the highest peaks are in the Gilgit – Baltistan region of Pakistan.

More recently, sports involving domesticated yaks, such as yak skiing, or yak polo, are being marketed as tourist attractions in Central Asian countries, including Gilgit – Baltistan, Pakistan.

Muztagh Tower ( also: Mustagh Tower ; Muztagh: ice tower ), is a mountain in the Baltoro Muztagh, part of the Karakoram range on the border of the Gilgit – Baltistan region of Pakistan and the Xinjiang Uygur region of China.

The areas shown in green are the two Pakistani-controlled areas: Gilgit – Baltistan in the north and Azad Jammu and Kashmir ( AJK ) in the south.

The two parts of the former princely state that are under Pakistani control are known as Gilgit – Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir ( AJK ).

It lies just south of the Indus River in the Diamer District of Gilgit – Baltistan in Pakistan.

Gasherbrum I (; ), also known as Hidden Peak or K5, is the 11th highest peak on Earth, located on the Pakistani – Chinese border in Gilgit – Baltistan region of Pakistan and Xinjiang region of China.

Gasherbrum II (; ), also known as K4, is the 13th highest mountain on Earth, located on the border of Gilgit – Baltistan province, Pakistan and Xinjiang, China.

It is situated in the Nagar Valley approximately 100 km north of the city of Gilgit in the Gilgit District of the Gilgit – Baltistan province of Pakistan.

Drafted by a treaty and a bill of sale, and constituted between 1820 and 1858, the Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu ( as it was first called ) combined disparate regions, religions, and ethnicities: to the east, Ladakh was ethnically and culturally Tibetan and its inhabitants practised Buddhism ; to the south, Jammu had a mixed population of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs ; in the heavily populated central Kashmir valley, the population was overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, however, there was also a small but influential Hindu minority, the Kashmiri brahmins or pandits ; to the northeast, sparsely populated Baltistan had a population ethnically related to Ladakh, but which practised Shi ' a Islam ; to the north, also sparsely populated, Gilgit Agency, was an area of diverse, mostly Shi ' a groups ; and, to the west, Punch was Muslim, but of different ethnicity than the Kashmir valley.

In the Northern Areas of Pakistan, Gilgit / Baltistan, the history of courtyard is slightly different from the rest of the world.

According to Emma Nicholson " All the evidence points to the fact that Gilgit and Baltistan region were constituent parts of Jammu and Kashmir by 1877 ".

* Pakistan: The Northern Areas ( Gilgit Baltistan ), adjoining areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, FATA

Along with Gilgit, it is now administered by Pakistan as the region of Gilgit – Baltistan ( formerly Northern Areas ).

The GB, formerly known as Northern Areas, consist of seven districts, namely Gilgit, Skardu, Diamer, Ghizer, Astore, Ghanche and Hunza-Nagar.

300pxShimshal شمشال ( in Urdu ) is a village located in Gojal, Hunza – Nagar District, in the Pakistan-administered Gilgit – Baltistan formerly known as Northern Areas of Pakistan.

Shina ( Urdu: شینا )( also known as Tshina ) is a Dardic language spoken by a plurality of the people in the Gilgit – Baltistan autonomous territory of Pakistan, formerly known as the Northern Areas, and the town of Dras in Ladakh, Indian-administered Kashmir.

In Gilgit, the state paramilitary forces, called the Gilgit Scouts, joined the invading tribal forces, who thereby obtained control of this northern region of the state.

On 31 October 1947, in the afternoon, Honorary Captain Muhammad Baber Khan called a meeting of the Junior Commissioned Officers of the Gilgit Scouts in their mess, where it was unanimously decided to over throw the Dogra rule.

Laghman soup, locally called Kalli, is an iftar staple in Chitral and parts of Gilgit.

Historically, the Baltistan region was called " Great Bolor " and Dardistan and parts of Brooshal ( e. g. Gilgit Valley ) were called " Little Bolor.

With its administrative center at the town of Gilgit, the Northern Areas cover an area of 72, 971 km² ( 28, 174 mi² ) and have an estimated population approaching 1, 000, 000.

In November 2001, Taliban, Al-Qaeda combatants and ISI operatives were safely evacuated from Kunduz on Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas in what has been dubbed the " Airlift of Evil " Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf wrote in his memoirs that Richard Armitage, the former US deputy secretary of state, said Pakistan would be " bombed back to the stone-age " if it continued to support the Taliban, although Armitage has since denied using the " stone age " phrase.

In November 2001, before the capture of Kunduz by United Front troops under the command of Mohammad Daud Daud, thousands of top commanders and regular fighters of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agents and military personnel, and other volunteers and sympathizers in the Kunduz airlift, dubbed the Airlift of Evil by US military forces around Kunduz and subsequently used as a term in media reports, were evacuated and airlifted out of Kunduz by Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force air bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas.

Further, this fact is confirmed and reiterated from the correspondence of the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir dated October 26, 1947 with Lord Mountbatten, Governor General of India which states that the state of Jammu and Kashmir has a common boundary with the “ Soviet Republic ”, and the said statement also determines the fact that inter alia Gilgit and Kanjut ( which includes the Raskam, Hunza valley and Taghdumbash ) are integral parts of Jammu and Kashmir. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru had also made a similar statement that " Jammu and Kashmir's Northern

In 1974 the last of the princely states ( Hunza and Nagar ) were finally abolished and their territory merged with the Gilgit Agency to form the Northern Areas ( now known as Gilgit – Baltistan ).

In the first volume the author discusses the land and the people, the pre-historic communication system in the Northern Areas, the need for having an all weather road link with Gilgit and the construction of Indus Valley Road.

Ismailis of the Northern Areas of Pakistan, namely Chitral, Ghizr, Gilgit, Hunza, as well as the border regions of China, were some of the first communities to adopt the jamatkhana into their ritual life.

The Northern Areas Transport Corporation offers passenger road service between Islamabad, Gilgit and Sost.

Headquartered in Gilgit, the capital of Northern Areas, Pakistan, it is the main force protecting the strategically important northern areas of Pakistan.

It was formed in 1971 with the amalgamation of the Northern Scouts along with its Scout wings: the Karakoram Scouts, Northern Scouts and Gilgit Scouts.

In 1947 the Gilgit Scouts reverted to their original duties of internal security under the Pakistani Political Agent for Northern Areas.

Gilgit scouts were converted into 1st and 2nd Northern Light Infantry Battalion.

Gilgit headquarters of the Forces Command Northern Area was assigned the role of supervising the entire operation.

The current colonel commandant of the Northern Light Infantry Regiment is Lt General Mohsin Kamal, who is the current commander, X Corps, Rawalpindi and former commander Force Command Northern Areas ( FCNA ), Gilgit.

Subsequent to the Partition of India in 1947 and the First Kashmir War, the name " Gilgit Agency " was adopted by Pakistan to refer to the territory which formed a de facto dependency of Pakistan from 1947 to 1970, but the name ceased to be used when the territory was merged into the Northern Areas.