The Bhimber District (Urdu:ضلع بھمبر) is the southernmost district of the 10 districts of Pakistan’s dependent territory of Azad Kashmir. It has an area of 1516 km², and the district headquarter is the town of Bhimber. Bhimber was previously a state of Kashmir. It is historical place of Azad Kashmir. Raja Sultan Khan was chained, blinded and killed by Maharaja Gulab
The Beas River (Sanskrit: Vipāśā; Hyphasis in Ancient Greek) is a river in north India. The river rises in the Himalayas in central Himachal Pradesh, India, and flows for some 470 kilometres (290 mi) to the Sutlej River in the Indian state of Punjab. Its total length is 470 kilometres (290 mi) and its drainage basin is 20,303 square kilometres (7,839 sq mi) large. As of 2017 the river is home to a tiny isolated population
Banū or Bannu (Pashto: باني ګل / بنو, Urdu: بنوں pronounce (help·info)) is a city located in Bannu District in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Founded by Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes in 1848 during the British colonial era, Bannu was once a British military base used for action against the Pashtun border tribes of the Tochi Valley and Waziristan. Bannu’s residents are primarily members of the Banuchi tribe and speak a dialect of Pashto that is similar to the distinct Wazir dialect. The
The Bannu Brigade was formed after the 1903 reforms of the British Indian Army by Herbert Kitchener when he was Commander-in-Chief, India. The brigade was part of the Northern Army and deployed along the North West Frontier. In 1914 at the start of World War I the composition of the brigade was: Commander Major General O’Donnell 25th Cavalry (Frontier Force) 33rd Punjabis 52nd Sikhs (Frontier Force) 55th Coke’s Rifles (Frontier
Baltistan (Urdu: بلتستان, Balti: སྦལ་ཏི་སྟཱན), also known as Baltiyul or Little Tibet (Balti: སྦལ་ཏི་ཡུལ་།), is a mountainous region in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan-administered Kashmir. It is located near the Karakoram mountains just south of K2 (the world’s second-highest mountain), and borders Gilgit to the west, China’s Xinjiang to the north, Ladakh to the southeast, and the Kashmir Valley to the southwest. Its average altitude is over 3,350 metres (10,990 ft). Prior to 1947, Baltistan was part of the princely state of Jammu and
Bagh City (Urdu: باغ) is the chief town and district headquarters of Bagh District, in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. The town is situated on the confluence of two nullahs (streams), Malwani and Mahl (ماہلوانی اور ماہل)at the distance of 93 km from Muzaffarabad. Contents 12005 earthquake 2Geography 3See also 4References 5External links 2005 earthquake On 8 October 2005, Bagh was hit by a devastating
A military armored (or armoured) car is a lightweight wheeled armored fighting vehicle, historically employed for reconnaissance, internal security, armed escort, and other subordinate battlefield tasks. With the gradual decline of mounted cavalry, armored cars were developed for carrying out duties formerly assigned to light cavalry. Following the invention of the tank, the armored car remained popular due to its faster speed, comparatively simplified maintenance and low production
The All-India Muslim League (popularised as the Muslim League) was a political party established in 1906 in British India. Its strong advocacy for the establishment of a separate Muslim-majority nation-state, Pakistan, successfully led to the partition of India in 1947 by the British Empire. The party arose out of a literary movement begun at The Aligarh Muslim University and was formed in Dhaka (now in Bangladesh) many years after the death
The All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference (Urdu: آل جموں و کشمیر مسلم کانفرنس) is a major political party in Pakistan administrated territory of Azad Jammu and Kashmir founded by Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas. The party originated as a splinter group within the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference. On July 19, 1947, a convention of All Jammu & Kashmir Muslim Conference, adopted the “Accession
Major General Akbar Khan, DSO (1912–1993), also known as Mohammed Akbar Khan, was a decorated officer of the British Indian Army and later Pakistan Army. He commanded the Kashmiri rebels and Pashtun irregulars in the First Kashmir War under the pseudonym ‘General Tariq’. In 1951, he was convicted of an attempted coup that came to be known as the Rawalpindi Conspiracy, and served a five-year prison