Legislation
Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self-Governance Order, 2009
Pakistan granted the region an elected legislature and de facto province-like status without formal provincial integration.
What happened
On 29 August 2009, President Asif Ali Zardari signed the Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self-Governance Order, establishing an elected legislative assembly and the Gilgit-Baltistan Council.[1]
Sources for this page
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Claim: On 29 August 2009, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari signed the Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self-Governance Order, granting the region a directly elected legislative assembly and a Gilgit-Baltistan Council, giving it de facto province-like administrative status without formal integration as a constitutional province of Pakistan.
- Gilgit-Baltistan (Wikipedia) link, 2009 Self-Governance Order section. Source record