The Hunza Valley

 

The Hunza District (Urdu: ضلع ہنزہ) is one of the 14 regions of the Pakistani domain of Gilgit-Baltistan. It was spread out in 2015 by the division of the Hunza-Nagar District according to an organization's decision to spread out extra administrative units in Gilgit-Baltistan.[1] The area headquarters is the town of Karimabad.

Contents

1 Geography

2 History

3 Administration

4 References

5 Bibliography

Geology

The Hunza District is restricted on the north and east by the Kashgar Prefecture of China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, on the south by the Nagar District and the Shigar District, on the west by the Ghizer District, and on the north-west by the Wakhan District of Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province. The Hunza District tends to be the northernmost region of the Indian subcontinent. It is home to the essential goes through the Karakoram Mountains (the Killik, Mintaka, Khunjerab, and Shimshal passes) through which trade and religion passed between Central Asia, China, and India for quite a while. The present-day Karakoram Highway goes through the Khunjerab Pass to enter China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

History

History expert Ahmad Hassan Dani spread out that the Sakas (Scythians) used the Karakoram course to go after Taxila. The Sacred Rock of Hunza has petroglyphs of mounted horsemen and ibex, close by Kharosthi inscriptions that think the names of Saka and Pahlavi rulers.[2] The stone similarly contains etchings from the Kushan period time, showing the Saka and Kushan suzerainty over the Hunza and Gilgit regions.[3]

Guide of Moghulistan including Kashgaria around 1490 A.D.

Hunza began to separate from the Gilgit region as an alternate state around 997 A.D.however unequivocal parts occurred with the underpinning of the Ayash directing family in the fifteenth hundred years. The abutting Nagar expresses extra disconnected similarly, and internecine battles between the two states were endemic.[4] Following the interruption of Kashmir by the Mughul blue-blood Mirza Haidar Dughlat, the Mir of Hunza spread out optional relations with Kashgaria (Yarkand Khanate). After Kashgaria went under Chinese control, he continued relations with Kashgaria by offering a yearly acknowledgment of gold buildup to the Chinese government in Yarkand. As a compromise for that representative acknowledgment, Hunza had a great time with local honors in the Raskam Valley and contracting opportunities in the Taghdumbash Pamir.[5][6]

After the British suzerainty was spread out over the Kashmir region in 1846, the British made Hunza subject to the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir. Along these lines, Hunza was in the unpredictable spot of being subject to two sovereign powers all the while, immensely confounding the relations between British India and the Chinese domain. The demonstration of acknowledgment for China was finally stopped in 1930.[6]

After the section of India into and present-day India and Pakistan in 1947, the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir assented his state to India to protect it against an assault by Pakistani tribesmen. An opposition in Gilgit then overturned Maharaja's situation. The Mir of Hunza thusly consented to his state to Pakistan, nonetheless, the advancement was rarely formally recognized, due to the Kashmir question in the United Nations.

Association

Definitively, the Hunza District includes two tehsils, the Aliabad Tehsil and the Gojal Tehsil. The towns of lower Hunza and central Hunza are arranged in the Aliabad Tehsil, while the towns from the Attabad Lake up to the Khunjerab Pass are arranged in the Gojal Tehsil. In lower Hunza, Shina is the essential language, however in central Hunza, the dominating language is Burushashki, and in upper Hunza, Wakhi is the main language. Area association is rehearsed by the Deputy Commissioner (DC), with the assistance of a partner justice. The Hunza police force is coordinated by the Superintendent of Police (SP).

References

 "Apportioning organization: Three new regions told in G-B - The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 25 July 2015. Recuperated 2016-03-10.

 Puri 1996, pp. 185-186.

 Harmattan 1996, p. 426.

 Dani 1998, pp. 223, 224.

 Pirumshoev and Dani 2003, p. 243.

 Mehra, An "agreed" edges 1992, pp. 1-14.

Book Index

Dani, Ahmad Hasan (1998), "The Western Himalayan States" (PDF), in M. S. Asimov; C. E. Bosworth (eds.), History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Vol. IV, Part 1 — The time of achievement: A.D. 750 to the farthest furthest reaches of the fifteenth hundred years — The evident, social and money related setting, UNESCO, pp. 215-225, ISBN 978-92-3-103467-1

Harmatta, János (1996), History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Volume II: The improvement of fixed and traveler municipal foundations: 700 B.C. to AD> 250 (PDF), UNESCO Publishing, ISBN 978-92-3-102846-5

Mehra, Parshotam (1992), An "agreed" edges: Ladakh and India's northernmost lines, 1846-1947, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-562758-9

Pirumshoev, H. S.; Dani, Ahmad Hasan (2003), "The Pamirs, Badakhshan and the Trans-Pamir States" (PDF), in Shahryar Adle; Irfan Habib (eds.), History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Vol. V — Development on the other hand: From the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth hundred years, UNESCO, pp. 225-246, ISBN 978-92-3-103876-1

Puri, B. N. (1996), "The Sakas and Indo-Parthians" (PDF), in János Harmatta (ed.), History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Volume II: The progression of fixed and traveler human advancements: 700 B.C. to AD> 250, UNESCO Publishing, pp. 184-201, ISBN 978-92-3-102846-5