Hunza, now an administrative district in the Gilgit-Baltistan Province of Pakistan, has remained an independent princely state since time immemorial. Maharaja Kashmir undertook many campaigns for the control of Hunza and its neighbouring state Nagar during 1880s but failed. The twin states were finally overcome by the British forces in the hotly contested “Hunza-Nagar Expedition” of 1891. Hunza remained a subsidiary state of British India till it acceded to Pakistan in 1947.

The centuries old Baltit Fort--the stronghold of the Hunza Rulers, has been become a Heritage Museum, after some restoration work by Aga Khan Trust for Culture Historic Cities Support Programme.