evidence: In the far north of Pakistan-controlled territory, Gilgit Baltistan is strategically located. It shares boundaries with Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor, China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, India’s Jammu and Kashmir, and Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, as well as a Pakistan-controlled swathe of territory in western Kashmir that Islamabad refers to as "Azad Kashmir." [...] India regards Gilgit-Baltistan as Indian territory. A part of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan comprises a major chunk of the territory Pakistan occupied during its war with India that year. Gilgit-Baltistan together with Azad Kashmir is referred to by New Delhi as Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK). [...] Interestingly, not only is Gilgit-Baltistan disputed territory but also its status in Pakistan has remained fuzzy. Official maps of Pakistan include this region but it finds no mention in the Pakistani constitution. Residents of Gilgit-Baltistan are not citizens of Pakistan but they pay taxes to the Pakistan government. And although a 2009 ordinance provided for self-rule in Gilgit-Baltistan, this is in name only as the region is tightly controlled by Islamabad, with few powers vested in the Gilgit-Baltistan assembly.