Situated in northern Pakistan, Baltistan gloats of delightful valleys and mountains including the popular K2, the second most noteworthy mountain on the planet. Including Skardu, Shigar, Kharmang and Ghanche, Baltistan's complete region is 31,000 km and the populace is 303,214. During 2009-2023, unimportant crime percentage was accounted for here. In Ghanche, that has a populace of 160,000, no wrongdoing was accounted for during 2007-2017. "The crime percentage here is very unimportant," affirms head of police Jan Muhammad in Nisar Ali's report in the April 14, 2021 release of Arab News. Ghanche has not seen an outfitted burglary or serious wrongdoing, for example, murder in the previous ten years and the last detailed murder occurred about quite a while back.


Baltistan isn't incidentally a protected district. This is a result of a few specific factors that this district will partake in its protected spot notoriety. Various mental hypotheses might be utilized to make sense of why the crime percentage is low in Baltistan.

History and topography


Since hundreds of years, Baltistan contains little, autonomous valley states associated by blood relations of its rulers or rajas, exchange, normal convictions, and social and etymological bonds. During the fourteenth 100 years, Muslim researchers from Kashmir crossed Baltistan's bumpy landscape to spread Islam. Toward the finish of the seventeenth 100 years, the Noorbakhshi Sufi request and the Shia Islamic confidence became predominant. The Twelver Shia Muslims contain more than 90% of the Skardu's populace, while the Noorbakhshis make the larger part in Khaplu. Strict belief system and social customs are solid among the very close networks of Baltistan involving basically of Twelver Shia Islamic and Sufi Noorbakhshi foundations, with a minor presence of Sunni Muslims.


Landlocked between two strong mountain ranges, for example, the Himalayas and Karakorum, the district is simply open to the external world for quite some time in summer. During the 1960s, with the development of a jeep street and in this way better street framework, the district saw a significant openness to the rest of the world and a deluge of homegrown and global sightseers.


Rich Balti culture


The Baltis partake in a rich culture of sword, broqchhos, yakkha and ghazal moves. At the point when a raja gets hitched, the sneopa, a marriage-parade dance is performed by pachones or twelve wazirs who go with the lady of the hour.


Native to the Karakoram locale, polo is the customary and a well known sport in Baltistan since the fifteenth 100 years. The Maqpon rulers acquainted it with other valleys during triumphs past Gilgit and Chitral. A polo contest is routinely held in Baltistan, which supports the comunities' social security.

Balti design has Tibetan and Mughal impacts, while its religious engineering mirrors the Buddhist engraving, so Buddhist-style wall canvases enhance fortresses and Sufi khanqahs. Buddhism is known for resilience and Sufi and Shia Islamic philosophies are known to be pluralistic and comprehensive in their peaceful demeanor towards different groups and religions.


A typical social legacy can sustain and fortify kinships, empower networks to praise their legacy, and gives a protected method for examining and tackle social issues (BetterTogether, 2001). This is the manner by which the Baltis have assembled their social capital, extraordinary ethnic personality, bunch attachment and social bonds.


Social bond hypothesis


Travis Hirschi's social bond hypothesis is a significant worldview in criminal science. As per this hypothesis, people structure social bonds in formal or casual gatherings, in light of connection, responsibility, contribution, and conviction. This way they control their way of behaving when impulse to become associated with crimes emerges. Solid recognizable proof of locals in gatherings assists individuals with holding major areas of strength for an in their social moral framework. This guarantees a humanized society where the local area overall sticks to and shields social guidelines.


The Baltis' remarkable ethnic character and geological segregation is helpful for them to shape solid bonds with relatives, family members and companions. As per Abbas (2021), assuming that somebody tracks down cash, a pack, or a lost wallet in Ghanche, a notice is set up or a declaration is made in the mosque to guarantee that the lost property is gotten back to the proprietor speedily. Frequently, individuals leave their homes and shops opened on the grounds that there is no understanding of burglary or robbery.

                                                                

Social personality hypothesis


The tendency to not enjoy crimes can likewise be made sense of by the Social Personality Hypothesis, as per which, aggregate or social character is a wellspring of standards of congruity or abnormality. A compelling faith in the social moral framework empowers individuals of Baltistan to stringently stick to the standards of similarity so there is a low propensity to participate in degenerate way of behaving. The cruel territory and environment support their strict philosophy, and the more modest size of their populace, and the valley-based local area framework builds up their obligation to ethnic and social standards.


Fundamental qualities and moral establishment speculations


Shalom H. Schwartz's hypothesis of fundamental qualities may likewise be utilized to make sense of the low crime percentage in Baltistan. Schwartz underlines the worth of adjustment to keep away from all such ways of behaving that could hurt others and abuse standards). A social design and climate of essential qualities propels people to act in a way supported by their gathering and reflects in their ways of behaving, for example, the propensity among the Baltis to shun crimes. The Shia and Sufi pastors in Baltistan have especially assumed a key part in character working of their networks.


Regardless of certain pockets of financial neediness, by and large, the Baltis are not insatiable commonly and are happy with what they have. The worth of generosity worry for social government assistance directs at not just their propensity toward try not to hurt any their local area or district, yet additionally to deal with the mountain dwellers and vacationers who visit their area.


Likewise, the ethical establishment hypothesis makes sense of the job of moral establishments normal across networks and countries. The five moral establishments are: hurt/care, decency/correspondence, ingroup/dependability, authority/regard, and immaculateness/holiness.


Individuals of Baltistan have serious areas of strength for a with their locale and its exceptional culture. They think about all occupants of their area as their ingroup. Wrongdoing generally has a casualty and, consequently, captivating in wrongdoing would equivalent to adversely influencing the ingroup and it would scrutinize the ingroup unwaveringness of the individual perpetrating the wrongdoing. On account of Baltistan, we can place that in light of the generally more modest estimated populace, individuals for the most part relate to a similar ingroup (i.e., Balti or Shia Muslims) and are more grounded on the ingroup/faithfulness establishment. This devotion towards different individuals from the general public goes about as an obstacle for wrongdoing.


Negative outer effect


Baltistan's low crime percentage makes it a splendid contextual analysis to address expanding crime percentage not just in that frame of mind as well as in different regions of the planet. Yet, the way that the tranquil district is by and large adversely affected by outer powers should likewise be thought about. Sightseers visiting Baltistan to see the value in its excellence, additionally carry with them values and ways of behaving unfamiliar to the Balti populace and thusly the low crime percentage in Baltistan might be hard to support attributable to visit openness to non-Balti societies and guests. A longitudinal examination of the effect of the travel industry on crime percentage design in Baltistan can be experimentally explored by future scientists.


To defend the enormous vacationer capability of this lovely district from the negative outer effect, strategy producers and regulation authorities ought to focus on relieve the unfavorable outside impacts on the area regardless of whether it requires novel intercession. Allow Baltistan to partake in its standing of being the most secure spot to be, a paradise on the planet.