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The city of Mirpur itself was founded in around 1640 AD or 1050 AH by the local Ghakhar chief Miran Shah Ghazi during Mughal rule.The Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series Kashmir and Jammu (1909) reports that "it is said to have been founded by Miran Shah Ghazi and Sultan Fateh Khan."
Mirpur District (Urdu: ضلع میرپور) is a district of Pakistan-administered Azad Jammu and Kashmir region. [1] It is one of the 10 districts of Pakistan 's territory of Azad Kashmir. [ 3 ]
Srinagar Airport (IATA: SXR, ICAO: VISR) is an airport serving Srinagar, the summer capital of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is owned by the Indian Air Force and the Airports Authority of India operates a civil enclave at the airport. The airport is located in Budgam, about 12 km (7.5 mi) south of Srinagar. It was ...
The Mirpuri diaspora constitutes individuals with an origin in the Mirpur District of Azad Kashmir, Pakistan, now living outside that district. [1] Migration from Mirpur started occurring in the 1920s, when many Mirpuris left for Bombay to work on merchant ships. [2]
The British Mirpuri (Urdu: برطانوی میرپوری ) community comprises people in the United Kingdom who originate from the Mirpur District and surrounding areas in Pakistan-administered Azad Jammu and Kashmir, thus being a part of the Mirpuri diaspora.
A brigade of Jammu and Kashmir State troops was stationed here, with the responsibility of securing the whole of Mirpur and Poonch districts. [citation needed] Following the 1947 Poonch Rebellion and the First Kashmir War, Nowshera got separated from the Mirpur district. It was combined with the other 'liberated areas' of the Mirpur district ...
Islamgarh (Urdu: اسلام گڑھ ) is a tehsil and Municipal Committee of Mirpur District near Mangla Dam of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. It is located on the southern part of the Pir Panjal Range, about 28 Kilometer in North-East of Mirpur. It had a population of 175,651 in 2023. [1]
Chitterpari is located in the northern plains of the Punjab region, about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) west-southwest of Mirpur, 95 kilometres (59 mi) north-northwest of Islamabad, and 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) northeast of Karachi. Its climate is quite hot during the summer, from July to September.