ABSTRACT
Pakistan Radio of the Northern Areas broadcast details of an American photography exhibition, Hunza in Treble Vision: 1930s and 1990s scheduled for September 14–16, 2001. 9/11 occurred three days before the event and retrospectively emerged as the portent that broke a philosophical and political policy of Western nation building through economic development. In the years since 9/11, residents of Hunza and by extension those of the Northern Areas (present-day Gilgit-Baltistan) enjoy many rights of Pakistani citizenry. Their territory, which Pakistan and India claim in the unresolved Kashmir Dispute, appears increasingly in Chinese development narratives. What alternatives exist for people claiming citizenship to Pakistan when their territory lies outside that state? I explore this query and allude to a hidden political text that contributes to new patterns of state building.
