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21-586: The company works under Ministry of Kashmir Affairs & Gilgit Baltistan . NATCO offers passenger road service between Islamabad , Gilgit and Sost (near the Chinese border). There is passenger road service between Tashkurgan and the Pakistani cities of Sust and Gilgit . Road service between Kashgar and Gilgit (via Tashkurgan and Sust) started in summer 2006. However, the border crossing between China and Pakistan at Khunjerab Pass (the highest border in

42-707: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ministry of Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan The Ministry of Kashmir Affairs & Gilgit-Baltistan ( Urdu : وزارت امور کشمیر و گلگت بلتستان , romanized :  vizārat-e-umūr kaśmīr va gilgit baltistān ; abbreviated as MoKGB ) is a ministry of the Government of Pakistan . It handles the regional affairs of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan as both territories of Pakistani-administered Kashmir do not have regular provincial status within Pakistan due to political circumstances revolving around

63-561: Is an Australian political scientist and author. He has studied and published on the long-running Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan . In his book, The Untold Story of the People of Azad Kashmir (2012), he proposed that the origins of the Kashmir dispute lay in the protests and eventual rebellion by the Kashmiri people of Poonch and Mirpur against Maharaja Hari Singh , and not in

84-497: The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is infringing upon the human rights of the residents of Gilgit-Baltistan , a contested territory traversed by the highway. Furthermore, the construction of CPEC is inflicting significant ecological harm on the region. This article about government in Pakistan is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Christopher Snedden Christopher Snedden

105-624: The Jammuites , who later became Azad Kashmiris , had a central role in instigating the Kashmir dispute , giving a "new spin" to the Kashmir issue that makes us rethink the accepted narratives. It is not Maharaja Hari Singh 's "indecisiveness" that led to the Kashmir dispute, but rather the different accessional desires of the State's peoples. Three events in the Jammu division of the State shaped these desires: first,

126-454: The envisaged plebiscite for Kashmir . However, on the ground, the ministry had almost complete control over the Azad Jammu and Kashmir government, due to the latter's few resources and almost full dependence on Pakistan for supplies and management. Brookings Institution scholar Navnita C. Behera states: In the chequered evolution of Azad Kashmir’s political status, one constant has been

147-605: The Australian Department of Defence in its Joint Intelligence Organisation (1984–1989), Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (1989–1990), and the Australian Transaction Reports and analysis Centre (1990–1994). From 1994 to 2002, Snedden ran his own consultancy, Asia Calling , focusing on South Asian matters. After 2002, Snedden worked as an academic in the La Trobe University (2002-2004) and in

168-718: The Azad Kashmir government'. Kashmiri political analyst Ershad Mahmud states: There is no denying the fact that, up to 1970, the fate of AJK governments largely depended on the allpowerful bureaucrats of the Ministry of Kashmir Affairs that were the kingmakers. In 1974, under the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto administration, Azad Jammu and Kashmir's first constitution was drafted—known as the Interim Constitution of 1974 . Under this ruling, Pakistan's controlled territory in Kashmir

189-792: The Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies of the Deakin University (2004-2009) as the Director of the M.A. (Strategic Studies) programme for senior military and civilian officers. Until 2019, he was a Professor specialising in South Asian studies at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu . Idrees Kanth of Leiden University notes the main thesis of the Untold Story as saying that

210-586: The Jammu province into pro-Pakistan and pro-India areas "politically, physically and militarily." However, Idrees Kanth finds that Snedden has oversimplified the narrative of the 'pro-India' part of the State to that of a secular attitude of Kashmiriyat . He argues that the role of the Congress party (and the National Conference allied with it) as well as the colonial state in Kashmir were also important factors. Journalist B. G. Verghese points out that

231-578: The MKA. A sprawling office was set up in Rawalpindi with a 300-man secretariat. The MKA also had directorates for public relations, refugee rehabilitation , movements and quartering, and civil supplies and coordination, which were located in the city of Murree . In April 1949, the MKA executed the Azad Kashmir Karachi Agreement with the then President of Azad Kashmir, Muhammad Ibrahim Khan and

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252-658: The book is entirely based on source material in Pakistan and sees the events from the point of view of Islamabad. There are no Indian or international sources or other analyses that question the Pakistani view. Satish Kumar of the Foundation for National Security Research in New Delhi finds the new material on the Poonch uprising contains considerable detail. However, he finds the assertion of

273-428: The book meticulously researched providing a wealth of empirical evidence. However, she states that Snedden takes a `moderate view' on Pakistan in the first half of the book and disagrees with India's position that Pakistan incited the tribal invasion of Kashmir. These arguments she finds 'more or less in sync with conventional Western approach' of putting the onus on India for not holding a plebiscite without insisting on

294-519: The head of the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference , Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas . The document's terms gave complete control over the areas of Gilgit and Baltistan to the MKA. For the territory of Azad Jammu and Kashmir itself, control over defence and foreign affairs was ceded to the ministry, including the responsibilities of contemporary negotiations with the United Nations and any arrangements for

315-526: The long-running Kashmir conflict . The Ministry of Kashmir Affairs (MKA) was first established in January 1949 following the First Indo-Pakistani War , which left Kashmir divided between India and Pakistan through a UNSC -mandated ceasefire line . Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani , former diwan of Bahawalpur and Pakistani state minister without portfolio (sic) was appointed as the minister in charge of

336-513: The pro-Pakistan, anti-Maharaja uprising by the Muslim inhabitants of the Poonch jagir ; second, large-scale communal violence in the eastern districts of Jammu that caused upheaval and death, including a massacre of Muslims; third, the establishment of a provisional Azad Kashmir government in areas "liberated" by the Poonch uprising. These three events, which happened well before 26 October 1947, divided

357-699: The subsequent invasion of Kashmir by Pashtun tribal militias from the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan . Christopher Snedden received B.A. in Modern Languages from the University of Canberra in 1981, focusing in Russian and Political Science. He completed a Ph.D. at La Trobe University in Melbourne in 2001, in which he explored the origins of the Kashmir dispute. Snedden has worked for

378-405: The supremacy of the Ministry of Kashmir Affairs (MKA) set up in 1948. Notwithstanding the changing form of government—basic democracy (1960), presidential form (1971), and parliamentary system (1974)—the ultimate authority has always been vested in the MKA. Australian political scientist Christopher Snedden states: The joint secretary heading the MKA 'had the best claim to being the real head of

399-486: The uprising as the main cause of the Kashmir dispute to be questionable. He points out that a local uprising internal to the State by itself cannot turn a dispute into an international dispute. However, he credits Snedden for having made a "realistic assessment" that there is no possibility of Jammu and Kashmir either getting independence or being unified. Priyanka Singh of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses finds

420-585: The world) is open only between May 1 and December 31 as the roads are blocked by snow during winter. You can find Information of routes and Fares in Official site. NATCO Bus Services is always closed during Eid vacations, which last for three days. On 30 November 2006 NATCO started a non-stop express bus service from Islamabad to Gilgit. on 20 April 2015 NATCO Celebrated its 41st anniversary at its Head Office in Gilgit. This article about an organization in Pakistan

441-625: Was politically bifurcated, with the regions comprising Gilgit and Baltistan being split into a separate unit called the Northern Areas . Likewise, the MKA was renamed to the Ministry of Kashmir Affairs and Northern Areas (MKANA). In 2009, the Northern Areas were formally renamed to Gilgit-Baltistan , and the MKANA was correspondingly renamed to the Ministry of Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan (MoKGB). Europe's foremost think tanks have asserted that

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