The MKA also had directorates for public relations, refugee rehabilitation, movements and quartering, and civil supplies and coordination, which were located in the city of Murree.

[3] However, on the ground, the ministry had almost complete control over the Azad Jammu and Kashmir government, due to the latter's few resources and almost full dependence on Pakistan for supplies and management.

[4]Kashmiri political analyst Ershad Mahmud states:[7] There is no denying the fact that, up to 1970, the fate of AJK governments largely depended on the allpowerful bureaucrats of the Ministry of Kashmir Affairs that were the kingmakers.

Under this ruling, Pakistan's controlled territory in Kashmir was politically bifurcated, with the regions comprising Gilgit and Baltistan being split into a separate unit called the Northern Areas.

[9] Europe's foremost think tanks have asserted that the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is infringing upon the human rights of the residents of Gilgit-Baltistan, a contested territory traversed by the highway.