What Is BALAWARISTAN: An overview of Balawaristan Nation-State
What Is BALAWARISTAN: An overview of Balawaristan Nation-State (View of Nawaz Khan Naji) I believe the balti broshoo(yashkoon) sheen khowar and wakhi people and those Kashmiris gujjars kohistanis pathans turks and hazaris who lived there before the Pakistani occupation Belong to yhe sae nation. We need a common name this area is th junction of the Himalayas Hindu kush and karakoram ranges in between the roof of the word tibet and pamir. There are many high peaks like nanga parbet and the biggest glaciers of the world like siachen here. In the past the area was known as the bala which means high. The people were called balawar. That is why We call the area from ladakh tp chitral balawaristan. This area was part of Jammu and Kashmir. After partition ad the wars with india it was ocupied by pakistan. But it is never described as azad Kashmir but as the northern areas by Islamabad which rules it by proxy In the early 18th centry balawar was divided into several states wh...