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 ...

Member of the Friends of Gilgit Baltistan in the European Parliament today issued statement condemning Pakistani Government's decision to make Gilgit Baltistan as its fifth Province while saying that ...

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 ...

Story by support@india.com (India.com News Desk) Pakistan comprises four main provinces Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), and Balochistan along with two disputed regions, Gilgit-Baltistan and ...

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 ...

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.

MQM-P has announced it will field candidates on all 24 Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly seats in the June 7 elections.

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.

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 ...

The National Finance Commission is not meeting because of the US-Israeli attack on Iran. There is a certain bureaucratic logic to this, because the war, by closing the Strait of Hormuz, or at least ...