GILGIT: <\/strong>A book published by Fidem Education Network, a publishing house based in Karachi, and having offices in Lahore and Islamabad, has incomplete and distorted information about Gilgit-Baltistan.<\/p>\n The organization on its website claims that “extensive research is undertaken while developing the subject matter for every book.” But, the portion about Gilgit-Baltistan has the most basic facts wrong. Gilgit-Baltistan has 10 district, not three. “Dardic” is not a language, but a language group; Shina and Khowar are generally considered to be Dardic languages. Major languages spoken in Gilgit-Baltistan are Shina, Balti, Burushaski, Wakhi, Khowar and Domki.<\/p>\n Photos Courtesy: Syed Akbar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GILGIT: A book published by Fidem Education Network, a publishing house based in Karachi, and having offices in Lahore and Islamabad, has incomplete and distorted information about Gilgit-Baltistan. The organization on its website claims that “extensive research is undertaken while developing the subject matter for every book.” But, the portion about Gilgit-Baltistan has the most …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73684"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73689,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73684\/revisions\/73689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nA simple google search about the languages and districts of Gilgit-Baltistan could have provided more factual information.<\/span><\/p>\n