Kashmir - Azad Jammu and Kashmir Flag 150cm x 90cm

Product Information

a b Inter-Services Public Relations (1991), Defence and Media 1991, Inter Services Public Relations, Pakistan, p.126 : "Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Abdul Haq Mirza has the honour of designing the flag of Azad Kashmir and formation signs of Azad Kashmir Regular Forces." UNCIP Resolution of August 13, 1948 (S/1100)– Embassy of India, Washington, D.C." Archived from the original on October 13, 2007.

Aksai Chin area has number of endorheic basins with many salt or soda lakes. The major salt lakes are Surigh Yilganing Kol, Tso Tang, Aksai Chin Lake, Hongshan Lake, etc. Much of the northern part of Aksai Chin is referred to as the Soda Plains, located near Aksai Chin's largest river, the Karakash, which receives meltwater from a number of glaciers, crosses the Kunlun farther northwest, in Pishan County and enters the Tarim Basin, where it serves as one of the main sources of water for Karakax and Hotan Counties. Hallberg, Calinda E.; O'Leary, Clare F. (1992). "Dialect Variation and Multilingualism among Gujars of Pakistan". In O'Leary, Clare F.; Rensch, Calvin R.; Hallberg, Calinda E. (eds.). Hindko and Gujari. Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan. Islamabad: National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University and Summer Institute of Linguistics. pp.91–196. ISBN 969-8023-13-5. Kapoor, Sindhu (2014), Politics of Protests in Jammu and Kashmir from 1925 to 1951 (PhD thesis), University of Jammu, hdl: 10603/78307– via Shodhganga

Flag use in Jammu and Kashmir

Bose, Sumantra (2009). Contested Lands. Harvard University Press. p.193. ISBN 978-0-674-02856-2. Archived from the original on January 17, 2023 . Retrieved December 21, 2016. Azad Kashmir – 'Free Kashmir,' the more populated and nominally self-governing part of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir Snedden 2013, p. 43: "Sudhans from Poonch considered themselves to be Sudho Zai Pathans (Pukhtoons), which explained why the Pashtun tribesmen from NWFP province lost no time coming to help Jammu and Kashmir's Muslims in 1947..". a b Gurdip Singh Kler (1995). Unsung Battles of 1962. Lancer Publishers. p.156. ISBN 978-1-897829-09-7. Aksai Chin - the name, means the desert of white stones.

AJK at a Glance 2018 pndajk.gov.pk" (PDF). Planning & Development Department AJK. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 6, 2021. The nearby Trans-Karakoram Tract is also the subject of ongoing dispute between China and India in the Kashmir dispute. [58] [21] Demographics and economics a b Government of Punjab (1862). Report on the Trade and Resources of the Countries on the North-western Boundary of British India. Lahore: Government Press. pp.xxii. c. the "Aksai Chin," or as the term implies the great Chinese white desert or plain. Rajputs – They are spread across the territory, and they number a little under half a million. Together with the Sundhans, they are the source of most of Azad Kashmir's political class. [66] Kashmiris – Ethnic Kashmiri populations are found in the Neelam Valley and the Leepa Valley (see Kashmiris in Azad Kashmir). [68]Literacy Rate in Azad Kashmir nearly 62 pc". Pakistan Times. MUZAFFARABAD (Azad Kashmir). September 27, 2004. Archived from the original on February 27, 2005. a b c d "District Profile - Rawalakot/Poonch" (PDF). Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority. July 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 24, 2015 . Retrieved August 31, 2015.

Azad Kashmir is home to a vibrant civil society. One of the organizations active in the territory and inside Pakistan is YFK-International Kashmir Lobby Group, an NGO that seeks better India-Pakistan relations through conflict resolution in Kashmir. Azad Jammu and Kashmir has an almost entirely Muslim population. According to data maintained by Christian community organizations, there are around 4,500 Christian residents in the region. Bhimber is home to most of them, followed by Mirpur and Muzaffarabad. A few dozen families also live in Kotli, Poonch, and Bagh. However, the Christian community has been struggling to get residential status and property rights in AJK. In July 2022, Ministry of Transport of China published updated China National Highway Network Plan that includes China National Highway 695 which will go from Lhünzê Town, Lhünzê County, Tibet to Mazar Township, Yining County, Xinjiang travelling through Aksai Chin. [78] [79] See also Another major language of Azad Kashmir is Gujari. It is spoken by several hundred thousand [note 4] people among the traditionally nomadic Gujars, many of whom are nowadays settled. Not all ethnic Gujars speak Gujari, the proportion of those who have shifted to other languages is probably higher in southern Azad Kashmir. [73] Gujari is most closely related to the Rajasthani languages (particularly Mewati), although it also shares features with Punjabi. [74] It is dispersed over large areas in northern Pakistan and India. Within Pakistan, the Gujari dialects of Azad Kashmir are more similar, in terms of shared basic vocabulary and mutual intelligibility, to the Gujar varieties of the neighbouring Hazara region than to the dialects spoken further to the northwest in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and north in Gilgit. [75]

Adams, Brad (September 22, 2006). "Pakistan: 'Free Kashmir' Far From Free". Human Rights Watch. Archived from the original on March 14, 2013 . Retrieved February 5, 2017.