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Building Blocks of Balti Ethnicity
The Baltis now have a global clientele on whose reflection they are beginning to fashion a new identity for themselves.
The summer 'window of opportunity' for the ubiquitous foreign tourists who want to see 'wilderness' has now opened for Baltistan, that cul-de-sac district in Northern Pakistan noted perhaps only for being a linguistic curiosity in Pakistan, because the inhabitants maintain a dialect of Tibetan.