Legal Status of Gilgit, Hunza, Nagar, Yasin, Ponial, Chitral and Skardu etc - I

Legal Status of Gilgit, Hunza, Nagar, Yasin, Ponial, Chitral and Skardu etc

Gilgit, Hunza, Nagar, Yasin, Ponial, Chitral and Skardu have from times immemorial formed integral parts of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. These places come into focus when the Pakistan Government nominated representatives from these areas to Pakistan’s ‘Majlis-i-Shora’. This was obviously a move to annex and merge these parts with the northern parts of Pakistan.

These places are inalienable parts of the Jammu and Kashmir State is substantiated and established beyond any doubt by history and that the State of Jammu and Kashmir exercised sovereignty and suzerainty over these areas is vouchsafed and evidenced by records, documents, correspondence with the then British Government, and various treatises as also de facto and de jure administrative control of the State over these areas. 

Authentic documents and official records relating to pre-1947 era now lying in the J&K State Archives prove the claim of Pakistan as false. Besides numerous publications by well known and knowledgeable authors testify to these areas being parts of J&K State as it existed on October 31, 1947.