Editing Gilgit Agency (section)

== Inside Pakistan (After 1947) ==
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The local rulers of these territories continued to appear at the Jammu and Kashmir [[Durbar (court)|Durbar]]s until 1947. Following the [[Partition of India]], on 31 October 1947 the British officer [[William Brown (British Army officer)|William Brown]] led the Gilgit Scouts in a [[1947 Gilgit Rebellion|coup against the Dogra governor of Gilgit]] which resulted in the region becoming part of the [[Pakistan administered Kashmir]]. Most of the Ladakh Wazarat, including the Kargil area, became part of Indian-administered Kashmir. The [[Line of Control]] established at the end of the war is the current [[de facto]] border of India and Pakistan.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}

Initially, the Gilgit Agency was not absorbed into any of the provinces of [[West Pakistan]], but was ruled directly by political agents of the federal government of Pakistan. In 1963, Pakistan entered into a treaty with [[China]] to transfer part of the Gilgit Agency to China, (the [[Trans-Karakoram Tract]]), with the provision that the settlement was subject to the final solution of the Kashmir dispute.

The dissolution of the province of West Pakistan in 1970 was accompanied by change of the name of the Gilgit Agency to the [[Northern Areas]]. In 1974, the states of [[Hunza (princely state)|Hunza]] and [[State of Nagar|Nagar]] and the independent valleys of Darel-Tangir, which were the de facto dependencies of Pakistan, were also incorporated into the Northern Areas.

Pakistan and India continue to dispute the sovereignty of the territories that had comprised the Gilgit Agency.