ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on two other areas at the margins of Pakistan: Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). It also explores the relationships between these two uneven territories that, in spite of the shared framework of the Kashmir dispute, are subject to different political treatments. Geographically, both GB and AJK are situated along the margins of Pakistan. Politically, however, this marginality needs to be qualified. These areas are marginal in that they have no say in Pakistani politics. In Pakistan, differential sovereignty is also a strategy of control. Pakistan creates a state of exception in which AJK and GB enjoy neither constitutional rights nor actual autonomy. The national ideology of Pakistan is still based on the Two-Nations-Theory that stipulates that Pakistan is the nation of South Asian Muslims. The Karachi Agreement formally separated the administration of AJK and GB, although they never had been united.Both AJK and GB were controlled by Pakistan.
