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1955 Poonch Uprising
__NOTOC__ The 1955 Poonch revolt, also known as the 1955 Sudhan uprising was a Civil revolt in Azad Jammu and Kashmir against the State of Pakistan. The uprising broke out in February 1955 and was provoked largely by the dismissal of Sardar Ibrahim Khan. It took a year until the uprising was suppressed in October 1956. Events A major uprising occurred around the Rawalakot and Pallandri tehsils of Poonch (then a district, now a division), against the State of Pakistan by angered Sudhans. After the 'bomb shell' of Sardar Ibrahim Khan's dismissal, who was a respected leader of the Sudhan tribe, 'Colonel (Retired) Sher Ahmed Khan, another ''sardar'' and ''scion'' of the Sudhan tribe and the senior most military officer from Poonch, was made a cabinet minister with responsibility for defense, education and health. Colonel Sher Ahmed Khan eventually resigned because his tribe was strongly opposed to his replacement of Sardar Ibrahim Khan; violent demonstrations had occurred p ...
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Azad Kashmir
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (), abbreviated as AJK and colloquially referred to as simply Azad Kashmir ( ), is a region administered by Pakistan as a nominally self-governing entitySee: * * * and constituting the western portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947.The application of the term "administered" to the various regions of Kashmir and a mention of the Kashmir dispute is supported by the tertiary sources (a) through (e), reflecting due weight in the coverage. Although "controlled" and "held" are also applied neutrally to the names of the disputants or to the regions administered by them, as evidenced in sources (h) through (i) below, "held" is also considered politicized usage, as is the term "occupied" (see (j) below). On its eastern side, Azad Kashmir is separated from the Indian–administered territory of Jammu and Kashmir by the Line of Control (LoC), which serves as the '' de facto'' bo ...
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Colonel Sher Ahmed Khan
Colonel ( ; abbreviated as Col., Col, or COL) is a senior military officer rank used in many countries. It is also used in some police forces and paramilitary organizations. In the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, a colonel was typically in charge of a regiment in an army. Modern usage varies greatly, and in some cases, the term is used as an honorific title that may have no direct relationship to military. In some smaller military forces, such as those of Monaco or the Vatican, colonel is the highest rank. Equivalent naval ranks may be called captain or ship-of-the-line captain. In the Commonwealth's air force ranking system, the equivalent rank is group captain. History and origins By the end of the late medieval period, a group of "companies" was referred to as a "column" of an army. According to Raymond Oliver, , the Spanish began explicitly reorganizing part of their army into 20 ''colunelas'' or columns of approximately 1,000–1,250 soldiers. Each ''colunela'' was comm ...
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Politics Of The Kashmir Conflict
Politics () is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of status or resources. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. Politics may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and non-violent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but the word often also carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or in a limited way, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external forc ...
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History Of Azad Kashmir
The history of Azad Kashmir, a Kashmir conflict, disputed part of the Kashmir region currently administered by Pakistan, is related to the history of the Kashmir region during the Dogra rule. Azad Kashmir borders the Pakistani provinces of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the south and west respectively, Gilgit–Baltistan to the north, and the India, Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), Jammu and Kashmir to the east. The region is claimed by India and has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since Indo-Pakistani war of 1947–1948, 1947. Modern history The princely state of Jammu and Kashmir (princely state), Jammu and Kashmir came into being in 1846 after the First Anglo-Sikh War. Prior to that, Jammu region, Jammu was a tributary of the Sikh Empire based in Lahore. Gulab Singh, formerly a footman in the Ranjit Singh, Maharaja Ranjit Singh's army who distinguished himself in various campaigns, was appointed as ...
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History Of Poonch District
Poonch jagir or Poonch district, was a former Jagir, semi-autonomous region in the Jammu and Kashmir (princely state), princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. The territory was divided between India and Pakistan in 1947, represented by the present-day Poonch Division of Azad Kashmir and Poonch District, India, Poonch District of Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), Jammu and Kashmir. The Sikh monarch, Maharaja Ranjit Singh captured the Poonch region in 1819 and gave it to the Dogra dynasty, Dogra noble, Raja Dhian Singh, Dhyan Singh, as a ''jagir'' (fief). After the death of Ranjit Singh, Dhyan Singh was murdered in Sikh intrigues, and the region was transferred to Gulab Singh as part of the Treaty of Amritsar (1846), Treaty of Amritsar, which established Jammu and Kashmir as a princely state under British Paramountcy, British suzerainty. The jagir of Poonch continued among Dhyan Singh's descendants as a subsidiary fief of Jammu and Kashmir. In 1928, the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmi ...
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Poonch District, Pakistan
Poonch District () is a district of Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir in the Kashmir#Dispute, disputed Kashmir region.The application of the term "administered" to the various regions of Kashmir and a mention of the Kashmir dispute is supported by the WP:TERTIARY, tertiary sources (a) through (e), reflecting WP:DUE, due weight in the coverage. Although "controlled" and "held" are also applied neutrally to the names of the disputants or to the regions administered by them, as evidenced in sources (h) through (i) below, "held" is also considered politicised usage, as is the term "occupied," (see (j) below). (a) (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 ca ...
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1947 Poonch Rebellion
In spring 1947, an uprising against the Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir broke out in the Poonch jagir, an area bordering the Rawalpindi district of West Punjab and the Hazara district of the North-West Frontier Province in the future Pakistan. It was driven by grievances such as high taxes, the Maharaja's neglect of World War veterans, and above all, Muslim nationalism with a desire to join Pakistan. The leader of the rebellion, Sardar Ibrahim Khan, escaped to Lahore by the end of August 1947 and persuaded the Pakistani authorities to back the rebellion. In addition to the backing, Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan authorised an invasion of the state, by the ex-Indian National Army personnel in the south and a force led by Major Khurshid Anwar in the north. These invasions eventually led to the First Kashmir War fought between India and Pakistan, and the formation of Azad Kashmir provisional government. The Poonch jagir has since been divided across Azad Kashmir, ...
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Ministry Of Kashmir Affairs
The Ministry of Kashmir Affairs, Gilgit-Baltistan, and States & Frontier Regions () is a ministry of the Government of Pakistan. It handles the regional affairs of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan as both territories of Pakistani-administered Kashmir do not have regular provincial status within Pakistan due to political circumstances revolving around the long-running Kashmir conflict. In 2025 the Ministry of States and Frontier Regions, which handled the tribal and frontier regions of the country was merged into it. History 1949–1974 The Ministry of Kashmir Affairs (MKA) was first established in January 1949 following the First Indo-Pakistani War, which left Kashmir divided between India and Pakistan through a UNSC-mandated ceasefire line. Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani, former '' diwan'' of Bahawalpur and Pakistani state minister without portfolio (sic) was appointed as the minister in charge of the MKA. A sprawling office was set up in Rawalpindi with a 300-man sec ...
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Ministry Of Kashmir Affairs (Pakistan)
The Ministry of Kashmir Affairs & Gilgit-Baltistan (; abbreviated as MoKGB) is a ministry of the Government of Pakistan. It handles the regional affairs of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan as both territories of Pakistani-administered Kashmir do not have regular provincial status within Pakistan due to political circumstances revolving around the long-running Kashmir conflict. History 1949–1974 The Ministry of Kashmir Affairs (MKA) was first established in January 1949 following the First Indo-Pakistani War, which left Kashmir divided between India and Pakistan through a UNSC-mandated ceasefire line. Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani, former '' diwan'' of Bahawalpur and Pakistani state minister without portfolio (sic) was appointed as the minister in charge of the MKA. A sprawling office was set up in Rawalpindi with a 300-man secretariat. The MKA also had directorates for public relations, refugee rehabilitation, movements and quartering, and civil supplies and coo ...
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Sardar Abdul Qayyum
Sardar Muhammad Abdul Qayyum Khan (also known as ʻAbdul Qayyūm K̲h̲ān, Urdu: سردار محمد عبدالقيوم خان) was a Azad Kashmiri politician who also served as the president and prime minister of Azad Kashmir. He also remained President of All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference for over 20 years. He belonged to the Dhund-Abbassi Tribe. Early life and career Sardar Abdul Qayyum was born on 4 April 1924 in Ghaziabad, Bagh tehsil (Poonch jagir), then part of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir into an Abbasi family. After completing his secondary education in Jammu, he joined the Engineers Corps of the British Indian Army and served in Africa and the Middle East.Tariq NaqqashSardar Abdul Qayyum Khan – End of an era Dawn, Updated 11 July 2015, Retrieved 20 May 2017Obaid AbbasiProfile and obituary of Muhammad Abdul Qayyum Khan The Express Tribune, 11 July 2015, Retrieved 20 May 2017 1947 Kashmir conflict He actively participated in the Kashmiri freedo ...
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Liaquat Ali Khan
Liaquat Ali Khan (1 October 189516 October 1951) was a Pakistani lawyer, politician and statesman who served as the first prime minister of Pakistan The prime minister of Pakistan (, Roman Urdu, romanized: Wazīr ē Aʿẓam , ) is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Executive authority is vested in the prime minister and his chosen Cabinet of Pakistan, cabinet, desp ... from 1947 until Assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan, his assassination in 1951. He was as pivotal to the consolidation of Pakistan as the Quaid-i-Azam, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, was central to the creation of Pakistan. He was one of the leading figures of the Pakistan Movement and is revered as Quaid-e-Millat ("Leader of the Nation") and later on as "Shaheed e Millat" ("Martyr of the Nation"). Khan was born in Karnal, Punjab Province (British India), Punjab Province to a wealthy family. His grandfather, Nawab Ahmad Ali, provided significant support to the British during the Indian Rebellio ...
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PC Pak Search Sudhan Operation
PC Pak Search Sudhan Operation was a Pakistani military operation of the 1950 and 1955 Sudhan uprising. It was the first major operation of the Pakistan Army inside Pakistan and was conducted against Sudhan tribal insurgents in the Sudhan-majority Sudhanoti, Poonch, Bagh, and Kotli Districts of Azad Kashmir. Background A UN-backed ceasefire was signed by India and Pakistan on 1 January 1949, marking the end of the Indo-Pakistani war. Sardar Ibrahim Khan, the president of the newly established Azad Kashmir, was not a signatory to the ceasefire and disagreements grew between Ibrahim Khan and the government of Pakistan over the future of Kashmir. These tensions culminated in the Pakistan government suspending Ibrahim Khan from the presidency of Azad Kashmir on 21 May 1950. As a response to his ousting, Ibrahim Khan started the democracy movement, which eventually turned into an armed rebellion, paralyzing the Azad Kashmir government. After eliminating all police posts from Aza ...
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