<p>This study examines how Pakistan’s state media aestheticizes Gilgit-Baltistan’s legally disputed status by converting political exclusion into representational inclusion. We ask how state visuals shape a distribution of the sensible that makes Gilgit-Baltistan appear perceptibly integrated into the national body, and how local media attempt to redistribute this order by restoring what it excludes ecological fragility, infrastructural neglect, and everyday marginalization stemming from political exclusion. Building on Rancière and Bleiker, we argue that the core struggle unfolds in the representational gap the distance between the image of inclusion and images of exclusion. In this study we aim to highlight that in disputed territories sovereignty is exercised not only through law and administration but through the aesthetics.</p>