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Skardu is the main town of Baltistan along the wide bank of the river Indus. Skardu is the largest district of Gilgit Baltistan. Baltistan is home to some of the highest peaks in the world, the Karakoram Range, Skardu is very popular with Mountaineering Expeditions. It is equally popular with high altitude trekkers, who treks to Baltoro Glacier, K-2 Base Camp and Concordia. Skardu by road, lies approximately 5 hours away from Gilgit and 10 hours drive from Besham. A daily flight to and from Islamabad is also in operation. The flight is always subject to weather.
Skardu has a character of its own and has a very interesting scenery. The Indus becomes wide and still here. The town is surrounded by dry rugged mountains and sand dunes.
Skardu is famous for the many trekking and adventure spots around it. There are numerous treks starting from Skardu. The near by Satpara Lake and Shangrilla resort are very famous among the local travelers and is visited by people from all over the country during June & July.
Shigar: Shigar is a beautiful village just a few miles North of Skardu its picturesque village with beautiful terraced fields growing all sorts of crops. Shigar was once a small kingdom and the Shigar fort was once residential fort of the local ruler. Recently the Aga Khan shown interest in the fort which has now been renovated and is open for tourists. The Shigar fort has been made to be a residential fort once again
Tours In Skardu. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.139.154.221 (talk) 19:57, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
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Several presumably Indian editors are constantly attempting to include the Hindi transcription of Skardu to the project. This should not be done so because 1) it is politically motivated, and 2) Hindi is not an official language in EITHER Pakistan-Administered Kashmir, or Indian Administered Kashmir. It's use is political, and unacceptable. This statement or claim that Hindi is not the official language has been "presumably" made by a pakistani editor or their supporter ever since the Revocation of the article 370 hindi is now the official language of Kashmir which is the union territory belonging to India.
The British Parliament has condemned Pakistan's move to declare Gilgit-Baltistan as its fifth province. The British Parliament passed a resolution rejecting Pakistan's position on the region in PoK.
A motion was passed by the British parliamentarians announcing Gilgit-Baltistan as a legal and constitutional part of Jammu and Kashmir illegally occupied by Pakistan since 1947.
The motion had been tabled in the British Parliament on March 23, 2017 by Bob Blackman of the Conservative Party. It says that Pakistan is attempting to annex an area that does not belong to it.
The British Parliament motion reads, "Gilgit-Baltistan is a legal and constitutional part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India, which is illegally occupied by Pakistan since 1947, and where people are denied their fundamental rights including the right of freedom of expression."
The British parliamentarians accused Pakistan of adopting a policy to change the demography of Gilgit-Baltistan region in violation of State Subject Ordinance. They called the construction of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as illegal.
The 'forced and illegal construction' of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has interfered with the disputed territory, the motion said.
The Gilgit-Baltistan area is under Pakistan's control since it invaded Jammu and Kashmir soon after partition of India. It forms the northernmost administrative territory under Pakistan's control just beyond the Kashmir region - a part of which is illegally occupied by Islamabad the British parliament passed a resolution regarding this issue.
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Resolution 40 Date 21 April 1948 Meeting no. 286. The Resolution recommended a three-step process for the resolution of the dispute. In the first step, Pakistan was asked to withdraw all its nationals that entered Kashmir for the sake of fighting. which simply implies thatKASHMIR IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF INDIA AND HAS BEEN OCCUPIED ILLEGALLY BY PAKISTAN SINCE 1948!So thus begs the question as to why this article shouldn't have any content in Hindi and why the supporters of the Hindi language are "presumed" to be Indian editors? They could very well be editors from UK who are aware of the British Parliament has passed a resolution, condemning Pakistan’s recent decision to declare Gilgit-Baltistan as its fifth province. The resolution said that the region is a legal and constitutional part of northern Indian province of Jammu and Kashmir, and an integral part of India. It also said that the region has been illegally occupied by Pakistan since 1947. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.183.0.122 (talk) 21:23, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
Some of the region above Jammu and Kashmir some place belongs to Pakistan on the map but not added in Pakistan's map E.g: skardu is shown as a part of Pakistan but included in India's map Pravin0810 (talk) 05:26, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
Spasage, can you explain why you reverted my edit? -- Kautilya3 (talk) 16:28, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
The section Kashmir War is slanted by taking the POV of the anti-Indian forces. Its factuality is also dubious: the partisan tone and selection of facts suggest that it is omitting equally relevant information. It needs rewriting in an objective manner. I am sorry I don't have the knowledge to do that. My suggestion would be to delete most of it, since the amount of detail seems excessive for WP. Zaslav (talk) 05:00, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Observations:
They should have been hints to not insist on having a dubious article. Yet, we have one because the process reigns supreme. Let's see the sources as of this version:-
The author Ḥashmatu'l-Lāh Khān was a Dogra official, who oversaw the administration of Gilgit-Baltistan and drafted a gazetteer of the entire region, borrowing from official documents, local clerics, epic literature, oral folklore, ruins, etc.; it did not primarily depend on previously written histories of the region.[28] Dani found his history of Gilgit to be "very brief and faulty" with imaginary chronologies—which were even internally inconsistent[28]—and advised caution in using the material.[27] Despite, it has become an authoritative reference for local historians.[29]
The local title of the Balti rulers was makpon/maqpon.
maqpon = lord of Skardo
Maqpon (ruler) of Skardu
This however raises the question of the reliability of the folklore and the conjectural dating for the rulers mentioned therein. An attempt in this direction for the early period has been attempted by Prof. Dani based upon Shah Rais Khan's History of Gilgit (Dani 1987:116). At the present state of our knowledge there seem to be NO CONVINCING GROUND for equating the rulers of the inscriptions with those of the folk legends.
— Vohra, R. Early History of Ladakh: Mythic Lore and Fabulation in Recent Research on Ladakh 4 & 5: Proceedings of the Fourth and Fifth International Colloquia on Ladakh
In short, we have an article that is the product of original research and synthesis. Most of the sources do not even mention our subject and those who do, are unreliable. There is also an interesting attempt to inherit notability from Ali Sher Khan Anchan who is the only notable (and verifiable) entity of this legendary dynasty. TrangaBellam (talk) 19:46, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
It is not Pakistan but Pakistan administered area of J&K. It is still under dispute hence mentioning it as part of Pakistan is incorrect. 2405:201:A003:7A70:B017:2F5F:7957:7EF8 (talk) 07:29, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
...city located in Pakistani-administered Gilgit−Baltistan in the disputed Kashmir region.
Also, the Shina/Tibetan spelling – is that attested in the Shina language anywhere? نعم البدل (talk) 18:29, 13 August 2023 (UTC)