New Water Policy and Practice Volume 1, Number 2 - Spring 2015 | Page 59

New Water Policy and Practice

almost province-like unit, Gilgit-Baltiastan. It is almost province because according
to Gilgit-Baltistan (Empowerment and Self-Governance) Order 2009, it will have a
Governor as Pakistan has in the other four provinces. The leader of the legislative
assembly will be known as chief minister; the assembly will have 33 members, of whom
24 are to be directly elected and; has power to legislate on 61 subjects. The territory
will have its own Chief