More than a month after Pakistan first unveiled plans to annex the Gilgit-Baltistan region – its only land link to China and located in disputed Kashmir – and grant its residents full citizenship rights, an ominous silence hangs over the isolated mountainous region.
Instead of celebrations, almost all the members of the general population interviewed by This Week in Asia during a three-week tour of Gilgit, Nagar, Hunza and Astore districts last month were sceptical that Islamabad would deliver…
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