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Is India going to capture Pok?
A top Air Force officer on Wednesday said there was no plan “at the moment” to capture Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), but expressed the hope that someday India will have the “whole of Kashmir”. However, when asked if the force has any plans to capture the PoK, Air Marshal Dev said there was no plan at the moment.
Which area comes under Pok?
Geographically, the administrative territory of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (which excludes Gilgit-Baltistan) covers a total area of 13,297 km2 (5,134 sq mi) and has a total population of 4,045,366 as per the 2017 national census….Azad Kashmir.
| Azad Jammu and Kashmir آزاد جموں و کشمیر | |
|---|---|
| Tehsils | 33 |
| Union Councils | 182 |
| Website | www.ajk.gov.pk |
Is Pakistan touching Ladakh?
Ladakh is bordered by the Tibet Autonomous Region to the east, the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh to the south, both the Indian-administered union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan to the west, and the southwest corner of Xinjiang across the Karakoram Pass in the far north.
What is Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK)?
Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) is that part of the Jammu and Kashmir (India) which was invaded by Pakistan in 1947. The region is referred by the United Nations and other international organizations, as ‘Pakistani-controlled Kashmir’ (or Pakistan Administered Kashmir) and it was re-named as ‘Pakistan occupied Jammu-Kashmir’ by the Modi government.
Is Pok a part of India?
PoK is part of India and we expect one day that we will have the physical jurisdiction over it,” Foreign Minister S Jaishankar asserted while addressing a press meet on the occasion of 100 days of the Modi government. Delhi has maintained that henceforth talks with Pakistan would be only about PoK and not on Kashmir.
POK shares its borders with several countries – the Punjab and NWFP provinces in Pakistan to the west, the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan in the north-west, Xinjiang province of the People’s Republic of China to the north and India’s Jammu and Kashmir to the east.
Is Jammu and Kashmir a part of India?
Soon after the partition of India in 1947, Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir signed the Instrument of Accession, thereby acceding to the Indian Union. Hence, POK is legitimately an inherent part of India.