For decades, the inhabitants of PoK and Gilgit-Baltistan have been highly discriminated against and persecuted because of distorted policies and agreements framed by Islamabad. With regard to the loss of Gilgit-Baltistan, Snedden Sardar Ibrahim accepts the argument that Azad Kashmir`s physical ties to Gilgit-Baltistan are weak. It was expected that Pakistan would manage it more easily via Peshawar or Rawalpindi. [6] However, in the years that followed, Azad Kaschmir tried to regain control of Gilgit-Baltistan through various means. In 1972, the Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly passed a resolution on the recovery of Gilgit-Baltistan. The intermediate constitution of Azad Kashmir, formulated in 1974, lists gilgit-Baltistan as part of Azad Kashmir. In 1992, the Azad Kashmir High Court admitted a petition and ordered that the government of Azad Kashmir take control of Gilgit-Baltistan. However, the order was challenged in the Supreme Court of Azad Kashmir, which overturned it, although he claimed that gilgit-Baltistan was part of Jammu and Kashmir. [8] The people of Gilgit-Baltistan would have been outraged by the Karachi agreement because there were no representatives of them who thought that the agreement was the fate of Gilgit-Baltistan. [9] According to Christopher Snedden, the agreement was very favourable to Pakistan and deprived Azad Kashmiris of considerable powers and responsibilities. [3] The agreement was apparently kept as a secret document until the 1990s. It has not been reported in the press articles of 1949, the memoirs of Sardar Ibrahim or other sources.
It was first revealed in the gilgit and Baltistan judgment (northern zone) by the Azad Kashmir High Court in the 1990s, which says the agreement “appears to have been executed on April 28, 1949.” Later, it was published in 2008 by Judge Syed Manzoor Hussain Gilani as Annex XVII of the Constitution of Azad Jammu – Kashmir. [1] [2] However, Navnita Behera says that the joint secretary of the Kashmir ministry as a result of the agreement has acquired “the best claim to be the true head of government of Azad Kashmir”. [7] The inhabitants of PoK and Gilgit Baltistan are now calling for the immediate abolition of the agreement with all the rights that citizens have in the letter and mind. Despite Pakistan`s protests to the contrary, it is clear that the abrupt decision to change the status of the United Kingdom was made because of the amendment to the Indian Constitution of August 2019 in the Kashmir Valley, which allowed Indian citizens to buy land and property there and integrate with the local population.