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Pakistan’s 5th province
September 21 , 2020
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- Pakistan is going to integrate the occupied Gilgit-Baltistan region by making its fifth province.
- It is one of the two parts of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK).
- The other one is “Azad Jammu and Kashmir” (AJK).
- Both formed part of the territory of the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir.
- The territory was handed over to the newly created state of Pakistan in November 1947 by the action of a British officer of the Gilgit Scouts.
- It provides land access to China, contains vast reservoirs of fresh water and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) passes through it.
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