Pakistan’s fifth Province, India’s, China’s Role

Gilgit Baltistan which is a large chunk of territory in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir which is now going to become Pakistan’s fifth Province, Pakistan has four Provinces as of now which is Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Phaktunkhwa and Balochistan and now Gilgit Baltistan (GB) is going to be separated from the rest of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and is going to become Pakistan’s fifth Province. Gilgit Baltistan now the reason that India has made very stern remarks been very critical about Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan’s announcement of a fifth Province that Gilgit Baltistan is soon going to become is embedded in history.

The country becomes independent on the 15th of August 1947 but until the 22nd of October the Maharaja of Jammu & Kashmir Hari Singh has still not acceded to India or to Pakistan. August 5th 2019 when the Modi government in one fell swoop revokes article 370 and integrates Jammu and Kashmir into the rest of India by converting it into two union territories the Kashmir Valley and Jammu is one while Ladakh is a separate union territory now as a result of that several things have happened and about this week so the announcement by Pakistan Prime Minister that Gilgit Baltistan is going to become a new Province of Pakistan, is actually linked to the Modi’s decision to revoke article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir. there has been a lot of disaffection and discontent inside especially inside the Kashmir Valley. Delhi directly rules over both Jammu & Kashmir which is the union territory as well as Ladakh, the Chinese troops crossed the line of actual control which is again their under-marketed boundary line between India and China. so Chinese troops are sitting on Indian territory in Ladakh and the Indian army is face to face perhaps not eyeball to eyeball but in several areas they’re very close to each other, Chinese aggressed into India and have since taken Indian territory is because they were apprehensive of the fact that Delhi would expand its influence or expand its control which India still continues to claim.

Pakistan occupied Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan which were very much part of Pakistan. Gilgit Baltistan would become a province of Pakistan, as it was once very much part of Maharaja Hari Singh’s undivided kingdom of Jammu and Kashmir which India continues to claim today. since 1947 because India believes and there is a parliamentary resolution of 1994 to that effect that we will once again bring back part of this and we will claim what is rightfully ours or right from India’s now once prime minister Modi revokes article 370 integrates this the state or the former state Pakistan, the road initiative is the China Pakistan Economic Corridor now the CPEC enters at Gilgit Baltistan via the Karakoram Highway travels all the way down the country towards the right up to the Arabian sea where the Gwadar Port is located and on this Highway the Chinese are believed to have spent about 60 billion dollars, in fact Pakistanis have also become hugely dependent on the Chinese and the CPEC is as a symbol of this over whelming dependence by Pakistan upon China now for the last several years the Chinese have all also been pressing the Pakistanis to give Gilgit Baltistan some sort of formal status that it cannot just be part of Pakistan or occupied Kashmir and one of the reasons why the Pakistanis have refused so far is because of this dispute between India and Pakistan on Jammu and Kashmir and the UN resolution the Pakistanis talking about the UN resolutions and India always says that this is a bilateral dispute between us and nobody else needs to get involved, since Kargil war was 1999 the Pakistanis have understood the significance of that line and the Chinese have pushed them to do so so once Gilgit Baltistan becomes a province it will be ruled by its own, it will merge and become part of Pakistan formally as well which it has not been these past 73 years but now it will be a proper part of Pakistan and that will imply that Pakistan intends to keep it and that it is in a sense giving up the status or the disputed status of the undivided territory that it control on India’s side as well India has also given up the special status that it gave to Jammu and Kashmir. Perhaps in the coming weeks and days and months and years both Pakistan and India could have some sort of a modest vivendi that they had begun to talk.