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Beautiful Baltistan

Hundred thousand years ago, this area was called “Tibet-e-Khurd and today Baltistan lay under the ice and snow bounded. By around 400 B.C ice melted and receded to the earliest evidence of human occupation, found in the valley Pololy” now-a-days called khaplu in the east, comes from finds dating from about 400 B.C  it was then the first hunter folk moved North West in the wake of melting ice and snow. It was that human substances in the Old Stone Age were still based on hunting in the region. At the same time becoming more refined are evident of population growth and culture development.

It was the last part of the Stone Age, people were keeping domestic animal and grazing cattle for their daily earning means. With the passage of time, the people of Baltistan used iron. A land of cheerful, willing and good tempered, very ready for a laugh, and temperament quarrels. The people were ingenious and straightforward in characteristics.

Baltistan also known as the little Tibet had a glorious past. The Maqpon dynasty appeared on the horizon long before the establishment of the Moghul Empire. The dynasty loomed large more than 600 years. Taking advantage of conflicts, the royal family of Skardu and their mutual rival Maharaja Kashmir sent the Dogra Commander at Ladakh Zor Awar Singh to attacked Skardu. The Dogra advances towards Baltistan in 1840 with the help of disgruntled elements reached Skardu and with the defeat of Ahmad Shah Maqpon, the fate of Baltistan was sealed. A long reigns of tyrannical yoke of Dogra regime until 1947. During this period Baltistan was administered directly by the Dogra Government as a part of Ladakh with headquarter at Leh. 

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