Poonch, sometimes also spelt Punch and Punchh, may refer to:
* Poonch, a semi-autonomous district and region of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir in British India, see
History of Poonch
* It was split after the
Indo-Pakistani war of 1947–1948 between:
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Poonch district, India
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Poonch (town)
Poonch (or Punch), (called ''Prunts'' in the Kashmiri, Gojri & Pahari languages) is a town and the administrative headquarters of the Poonch district, of the Indian-administered union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, which is part of the ...
, the headquarters of the Indian district of Poonch
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Poonch Division
The Poonch Division () is a first-order administrative division of the Pakistani–administered territory of Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir.The application of the term "administered" to the various regions of Kashmir and a mention of the K ...
, in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan, which includes
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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 supporte ...
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Poonch River
The Poonch River (also known as Punch River, Punch Tohi, Pulast, and Tohi of Punch) is a tributary of the Jhelum River that flows through Jammu and Kashmir in India, and Azad Kashmir in Pakistan.
Name
According to Georg Bühler, the ancie ...
, a river flowing through the historical Poonch region
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Poonchh, Jhansi
Poonchh is a historic village in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is situated on national highway 27 in Moth Tehsil in the district of Jhansi, India.
It is situated near the river Betwa ( far in the west of river Betwa) at an average ele ...
, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India
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Poonchi (disambiguation) Poonchi, or Punchhi, may refer to:
* Madan Mohan Punchhi (1933–2015), Chief Justice of India
See also
* Poonch (disambiguation)
Poonch, sometimes also spelt Punch and Punchh, may refer to:
* Poonch Jagir, a semi-autonomous district of the pr ...
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Punch (disambiguation)
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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 fu ...
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Military operations in Poonch (1948)
Military operations took place in Poonch district, then part of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, in 1948 during the conflict in Jammu and Kashmir between the Indian Army and Pakistani and Azad Kashmir rebel forces. Poonch withstood a s ...
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