{"id":7806,"date":"2020-05-08T14:25:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T08:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7806"},"modified":"2020-05-08T14:25:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T08:55:17","slug":"gilgit-baltistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/gilgit-baltistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilgit-Baltistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\" data-alignment=\"left\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: International<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.indiathinkers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/GILGIT-BALTISTAN-REGION.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"GILGIT-BALTISTAN REGION | INDIATHINKERS BRIEF\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 The External Affairs Ministry of India issued a \u201cstrong protest\u201d over an order by the Pakistan Supreme Court allowing the Pakistan\u2019s Government to hold elections in the region of Gilgit-Baltistan of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).<\/p>\n<p><b>About:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i10.dainikbhaskar.com\/thumbnails\/730x548\/web2images\/www.bhaskar.com\/2020\/05\/07\/gggg_1588844947.jpg\" alt=\"Paksitan India | India Meteorological (IMD) Weather Forecast ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) was formerly known as the Northern Areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It is an integral part of the Indian Union Territory of Ladakh but is currently under Pakistani occupation.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Gilgit Baltistan has been under the control of Pakistan since April 1949, when the leadership of the so-called Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) was forced to sign away this territory to Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 However, the region does not have any place in the constitutional framework of Pakistan and has been kept under the tight control of the central government. The region functioned as a \u201cprovincial autonomous region\u201d since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Gilgit-Baltistan shares a border with Azad Kashmir, together with which it is referred to by the United Nations as \u201cPakistan administered Kashmir\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Pakistan in recent months had taken a series of steps to ensure full constitutional and legal guarantees to the region which was strategically important for the country especially in view of the passage of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) through the region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: International Why in news? \u2022 The External Affairs Ministry of India issued a \u201cstrong protest\u201d over an order<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-7806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7807,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806\/revisions\/7807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}