The Treaty of Lahore of 9 March 1846, was a peace treaty marking the end of the First Anglo-Sikh War. The Treaty was concluded, for the British, by the Governor-General Sir Henry Hardinge and two officers of the East India Company and, for the Sikhs, by the seven-year-old Maharaja Duleep Singh Bahadur and seven members of Hazara, the territory to the south of the river Sutlej and
Thorar is a town in Poonch District in Azad Kashmir. It is located about 20 miles from Rawalakot city, the capital of Poonch district. Contents 1Location 2Occupation 3Shopping 4Notables 5Pictures 6See also Location Thorar is a Tehsil of District Poonch (Rawalakot), Azad Kashmir, and is connected to Rawalakot and Muzaffarabad by main roads. Its suburbs are Tain, Mang, Jassapeer, Bhalgran,
Thall (Pashto: ټل, Ṭəl), also spelt Tall, is a town in Thall Tehsil of Hangu District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Thall is located at 33°21’52N 70°32’52E with an altitude of 742 metres (2437 feet). Contents 1Overview and history 2Population 3Education 4See also 5References Overview and history It is administratively subdivided into two Union Councils. It is separated from the North Waziristan Agency by the Kurram
The Yousafzai State of Swat (Pashto: د يوسفزو رياست سوات; locally called as Dera Yusufzai) was a kingdom established in 1849 that was ruled by chiefs known as Akhunds. It was then recognized as a princely state in alliance with the British Indian Empire between 1926 and 1947, after which the Akhwand acceded to the newly independent state of Pakistan. Swat continued to exist as an
Skardu (Urdu: سکردو, romanized: Skardū, pronounced ; Balti: སྐར་དོ་་) is a city located in Gilgit−Baltistan, Pakistan, and serves as the capital of the Skardu District. Skardu is situated at an elevation of nearly 2,500 metres (8,202 feet) in the Skardu Valley, at the confluence of the Indus and Shigar Rivers. The city is an important gateway to the eight-thousanders of the nearby Karakoram mountain range. The Indus River running through the region separates the Karakoram
Brigadier Sher Jung Thapa MVC (15 April 1907 – 25 February 1999) was a military officer of the Jammu and Kashmir State Forces and the later the Indian Army. Revered as The Hero of Skardu, he was a recipient of the Indian Army’s second highest gallantary award, the Maha Vir Chakra (MVC). Contents 1Personal life 2Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 3Military decorations 4Death 5Dates of rank 6Notes
Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah (5 December 1905 – 8 September 1982) was an Indian politician who played a central role in the politics of Jammu and Kashmir. Referred as “Sher-e-Kashmir” (Lion of Kashmir), Abdullah was the founding leader of the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference (later renamed Jammu and Kashmir National Conference) and the 1st elected Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir after its accession
Major Shaukat Hayat Khan (Punjabi and Urdu: شوكت حيات خان; 24 September 1915 – 25 September 1998) was an influential politician, military officer, and Pakistan Movement activist who played a major role in the organising of the Muslim League in the British-controlled Punjab. Educated at the Aligarh Muslim University and served in the British Indian Army in the Middle East theatre of the Second World War, he actively participated in the politics through the Muslim League platform.
Sehnsa is a large town in Pakistan Administered Azad Kashmir which lies on the west of Gulpur on the Kotli-Rawaplindi road. Sehnsa is a sub-divisional (Tehsil) headquarters of Kotli district in the center of Sehnsa valley. Contents 1Education 2Importance 32005 earthquake 4Religion 5Location 6Geography and climate 7Language 8Tribes 9References 10External links Education The literacy rate of this area is more
General Sir (Francis Robert) Roy Bucher KBE CB MC (31 August 1895 – 5 January 1980) was a British soldier who became the second Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army and the final non-Indian to hold the top post of the Indian Army after Partition. Military career Educated at the Edinburgh Academy, and was commissioned from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst as a Second Lieutenant into the Unattached List for the Indian