Dated: 26 October 1947 My dear Lord Mountbatten, I have to inform your Excellency that a grave emergency has arisen in my State and request immediate...
Tag - Kashmir 1947
While the fighting between Indian and Pakistani forces was going on, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah took over the charge of government. He was appointed head of...
Pashtun tribesmen from the South Waziristan region of Pakistan attacked Kashmir to seize the state. They moved along the Rawalpindi-Murree-Muzaffarabad...
The kind of road connectivity Jammu and Kashmir has today was not the same in 1947. Kashmir Valley’s main link in the British India was with Rawalpindi...
Over two lakh Muslims from Jammu region’s south eastern plains fled to Pakistan during 1947 communal riots. This was also the time when Hindus and Sikhs...
Srinagar erupted in utter state of chaos in third week of October 1947 when the news of tribal raid in Muzaffarabad and their march to Baramulla broke out.
No one knows what would have been the political future of Jammu and Kashmir if the gang of Pakistani Pashtun tribesmen had not attacked the state in October...
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...