Masood Khan, former President of Azad Kashmir and current Pakistani ambassador to the United States. a b Harish Kapadia (March 2002). High Himalaya Unknown Valleys. Indus Publishing. p.309. ISBN 978-81-7387-117-7. Aksai Chin, (Aksai: eastern, Chin: China) ... Most of the names were found to be distinctly Yarkandi. Deutsch| English| français| हिन्दी| italiano| 日本語| ಕನ್ನಡ| македонски| മലയാളം| मराठी| Nederlands| português do Brasil| sicilianu| தமிழ்| ತುಳು| اردو| 中文| +/− Census 2017: AJK population rises to over 4m". The Nation. August 26, 2017. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018 . Retrieved June 10, 2018.

Khan Muhammad Khan, politician from Poonch who served as the Chairman of the War Council during the 1947 Poonch Rebellion. Literacy Rate in Azad Kashmir nearly 62 pc". Pakistan Times. MUZAFFARABAD (Azad Kashmir). September 27, 2004. Archived from the original on February 27, 2005. Brad Adams, the Asia director at the U.S.-based NGO Human Rights Watch said in 2006: "Although 'azad' means 'free,' the residents of Azad Kashmir are anything but; the Pakistani authorities govern the Azad Kashmir government with tight controls on basic freedoms." [45] Scholar Christopher Snedden has observed that despite tight controls, the people of Azad Kashmir have generally accepted whatever Pakistan has done to them, which in any case has varied little from how most Pakistanis have been treated (by Pakistan). According to Christopher Snedden, one of the reasons for this was that the people of Azad Kashmir had always wanted to be part of Pakistan. [46]

Pakistanis express solidarity by raising Kashmiri flags on Independence Day

Prem Shankar Jha. "Grasping the Nettle". South Asian Journal. Archived from the original on May 16, 2010. [ unreliable source?] h) Bose, Sumantra (2009), Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace, Harvard University Press, pp.294, 291, 293, ISBN 978-0-674-02855-5 Quote: "J&K: Jammu and Kashmir. The former princely state that is the subject of the Kashmir dispute. Besides IJK (Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir. The larger and more populous part of the former princely state. It has a population of slightly over 10 million, and comprises three regions: Kashmir Valley, Jammu, and Ladakh.) and AJK ('Azad" (Free) Jammu and Kashmir. The more populous part of Pakistani-controlled J&K, with a population of approximately 2.5 million.), it includes the sparsely populated "Northern Areas" of Gilgit and Baltistan, remote mountainous regions which are directly administered, unlike AJK, by the Pakistani central authorities, and some high-altitude uninhabitable tracts under Chinese control."

Anonymous works, photographs, cinematographic works, sound recordings, government works, and works of corporate authorship or of international organizations enter the public domain 60 years after the date on which they were first published, counted from the beginning of the following calendar year (i.e. as of 2023, works published prior to 1 January 1963 are considered public domain).Kapoor, Sindhu (2014), Politics of Protests in Jammu and Kashmir from 1925 to 1951 (PhD thesis), University of Jammu, hdl: 10603/78307– via Shodhganga 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. Snedden, Christopher (2013) [first published as The Untold Story of the People of Azad Kashmir, 2012]. Kashmir: The Unwritten History. HarperCollins India. ISBN 978-9350298985. Despite this region being nearly uninhabitable and having no resources, it remains strategically important for China as it connects Tibet and Xinjiang. During the 1950s, the People's Republic of China built a 1,200km (750mi) road connecting Xinjiang and western Tibet, of which 179km (112mi) ran south of the Johnson Line through the Aksai Chin region claimed by India. [21] [31] Aksai Chin was easily accessible to the Chinese, but was more difficult for the Indians on the other side of the Karakorams to reach. [21] The Indians did not learn of the existence of the road until 1957, which was confirmed when the road was shown in Chinese maps published in 1958. [40] The construction of this highway was one of the triggers for the Sino-Indian War of 1962. [41] China National Highway 219 runs through Aksai Chin connecting Lhatse County (Lhazê, Lazi) and Xinjiang in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

a) Kashmir, region Indian subcontinent, Encyclopaedia Britannica, archived from the original on August 13, 2019 , retrieved August 15, 2019 (subscription required) Quote: "Kashmir, region of the northwestern Indian subcontinent ... has been the subject of dispute between India and Pakistan since the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. The northern and western portions are administered by Pakistan and comprise three areas: Azad Kashmir, Gilgit, and Baltistan, the last two being part of a territory called the Northern Areas. Administered by India are the southern and southeastern portions, which constitute the state of Jammu and Kashmir but are slated to be split into two union territories.";Gaver, John W. (2011). Protracted Contest: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Twentieth Century. University of Washington Press. p.83. ISBN 978-0295801209 . Retrieved 4 January 2020. The westerly route via Aksai Chin was an old caravan route and in many ways the best. It was the only route that was open year-round, throughout both the winter and the monsoon season. The Dzungar army that had reached Lhasa in 1717 ... had followed this route. Desktop Hd Wallpapers Pangong Tso Lake Ladakh Kashmir A Green Lagoon By The Side Of A Pangong Tso, The Blue Lake 5200×2925 The dialects of the Pahari-Pothwari language complex cover most of the territory of Azad Kashmir. Those are also spoken across the Line of Control in the neighbouring areas of Indian Jammu and Kashmir and are closely related both to Punjabi to the south and Hinko to the northwest. The language variety in the southern districts of Azad Kashmir is known by a variety of names – including Mirpuri, Pothwari and Pahari – and is closely related to the Pothwari proper spoken to the east in the Pothohar region of Punjab. The dialects of the central districts of Azad Kashmir are occasionally referred to in the literature as Chibhali or Punchi, but the speakers themselves usually call them Pahari, an ambiguous name that is also used for several unrelated languages of the lower Himalayas. Going north, the speech forms gradually change into Hindko. Today, in the Muzaffarabad District the preferred local name for the language is Hindko, although it is still apparently more closely related to the core dialects of Pahari. [71] Further north in the Neelam Valley the dialect, locally also known as Parmi, can more unambiguously be subsumed under Hindko. [72] AJK at a Glance 2018 pndajk.gov.pk" (PDF). Planning & Development Department AJK. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 6, 2021. Mathur, Shubh (2008). "Srinagar-Muzaffarabad-New York: A Kashmiri Family's Exile". In Roy, Anjali Gera; Bhatia, Nandi (eds.). Partitioned Lives: Narratives of Home, Displacement and Resettlement. Pearson Education India. ISBN 978-9332506206.

Rahman, Tariq (2002). Language, ideology and power: language learning among the Muslims of Pakistan and North India. Karachi: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-579644-5. Posthumous works (other than those above) enter the public domain after 60 years from publication date, counted from the beginning of the following calendar year. In the 1950s, India collected salt from various lakes in Aksai Chin to study the economic feasibility of salt mining operations in the area. [67] [68]a b Sanjeev Kumar Bhasin (2006). Amazing Land Ladakh: Places, People, and Culture. Indus Publishing. p.61. ISBN 978-81-7387-186-3. The Aksai Chin (desert of white stones) Grenard, Fernand (1904). Tibet: The Country and its Inhabitants. Fernand Grenard. Translated by A. Teixeira de Mattos. Originally published by Hutchison and Co., London. 1904. Reprint: Cosmo Publications. Delhi. 1974, pp. 28–30. Bose, Sumantra (2003). Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01173-2. 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. Azad Kashmir". www.britannica.com. Archived from the original on October 12, 2020 . Retrieved April 17, 2021.