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History of Baltistan Reference: Copied from  http://www.tibet-encyclopaedia.de/baltistan.html    Figure 1: The location of Baltistan in the extreme north-east of Pakistan. Source:    www.lib.utexas.edu/  maps / kashmir.html   Figure 2: The Karakorum Highway (red) from Islamad to Sinkiang and the 170 km long connecting road (black) to Skardu in Baltistan Baltistan (Little-Tibet) Baltistan, formerly also known as Little Tibet (Little Tibet, Petit Tibet, Tibet Minor), is a high mountainous region in the extreme north-east of Pakistan. Baltistan is characterized by its location in the Karakorum stretching between the 35th and 36th northern latitudes over about 650 km, a huge mountain range, with the K2 also the second highest mountain in the world. Less than 1% of the area of ​​Baltistan is irrigated, so that the region, as seen from the oases and mountain pastures along the rivers, consists essentially of in...