The breve is the diacritical mark that indicates a vowel should be pronounced with a short vowel sound. The breve is a half moon shape that looks like a parenthesis printed sideways with the opening at the top. It would be placed over the a in cat or the i in sit. It is used with all vowels.
Gilgit Baltistan, (formerly known as the Northern Areas), (Urdu: Ú¯ÙÚ¯Øª Ø¨ÙØªØ³ØªØ§Ù) is the northern-most autonomous territory of Pakistan. It was part of the former Princely state of Kashmir and Jammu in 1800s and later leased to British eventually liberated after a planned liberation movement led by Gilgit Scouts.
Pakistan (/ËpÃ¦káµ»stÃ¦n/ or /pÉËkáµ»ËstÉËn/; Urdu: Ù¾Ø§Ú©Ø³ØªØ§Ùâ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a federal parliamentary republic in South Asia on the crossroads of Central Asia and Western Asia. It is the sixth-most populous country with a population exceeding 200 million people. In terms of area, it is the 33rd-largest country in the world with an area covering 881,913 square kilometres (340,509 square miles).