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The 2024 Azad Kashmir protests were a series of six day long protests, sit-ins, shutter-downs, demonstrations and wheel-jam strikes starting on 8 May against the Federal Government of Pakistan and the Government of Azad Kashmir, calling for lower prices for wheat, flour, and electricity, in addition to other demands. Many of the protests were ...
On Saturday, 8 October 2005 [11] a 7.6 magnitude earthquake killed 73,338 people and left up to three million homeless in Pakistan, including Azad Kashmir. The city of Rawalakot, the capital of the Poonch district, suffered significant damage from the 2005 earthquake; although most of the buildings were left standing, many of them were rendered uninhabitable, and some of the population was ...
The Battle of Rawalakot, was a battle fought by the Azad Kashmir Regular Force against the State of Jammu and Kashmir which took place in the city of Rawalakot and surrounding areas between November 4–14, 1947 during the First Kashmir War, which was initiated by Muslim Sudhan ex-servicemen to fight for the accession of Jammu and Kashmir to the Dominion of Pakistan. [4]
Protesters in the Pakistan-held part of Kashmir called off rallies over price hikes that have left four people dead after authorities agreed to lower prices of electricity and wheat. The local ...
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (Urdu: آزاد جموں و کشمیر, romanized: Āzād Jammū̃ o Kaśmīr ⓘ, lit. 'Free Jammu and Kashmir'), [6] abbreviated as AJK and colloquially referred to as simply Azad Kashmir (/ ˌ ɑː z æ d k æ ʃ ˈ m ɪər / AH-zad kash-MEER), [7] is a region administered by Pakistan as a nominally self-governing entity [8] and constituting the western portion of the ...
The Government of Azad Kashmir awarded him Fakhr-i-Kashmir posthumously on 27 March 1948, which is equivalent to Hilal-i-Jur'at. [4] Captain Hussain Shaheed’s role to get the people of AJK liberated from the oppressive rule of the Maharaja of Kashmir would never be overlooked or forgotten in the history of Kashmir.
The Government of Azad Kashmir (Urdu: حکومتِ آزاد کشمیر) is the state government which administers one of the territories of Pakistani-administered Kashmir territories of Azad Kashmir. The Azad Kashmir government consists of a president as head of state and a prime minister as chief executive, with the support of a council of ...
The district headquarters is the city of Rawalakot. It is the third most populous district of Azad Kashmir. [4] [5] The main language is Pahari ("Punchi"), native to an estimated 95% of the population, but there are also speakers of Gujari, [6] while Urdu has official status. Map of Azad Kashmir with the Poonch District highlighted in red