Pakistai Kashmir vs Indian Jammu & Kashmir

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Population 50 million vs 150 million
HDI 0.538(Pakistan) vs 0.601(J&K)

Names of engineering colleges
Azad Kashmir-Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MUST)(only one)

J&K(Not all)
IIT Jammu
NIT Srinagar
Islamic University of Science and Technology, Pulwama
Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu
Model Institute of Engineering & Technology, Bantalab, Jammu
Kashmir University - Masterpro College of Engineering
Institution of Technicians and Engineers (Kashmir)
SSM College of Engineering, Baramulla
MBS College of Engineering & Technology, Digaina, Jammu
Yogananda College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu
College of Engineering, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Udhampur
College of Engineering and Technology, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri

Sports in Azad Kashmir
In terms of sports, football, cricket and volleyball are very popular in Azad Kashmir. Many tournaments are also held throughout the year and in the holy month of Ramazan night time floodlit tournaments are also organised.

Azad Kashmir has a t20 cricket team in Pakistan's T20 domestic tournament
Mirpur has a cricket stadium (Quaid-e-Azam Stadium) which has been taken over by the Pakistan Cricket Board for renovation to bring it up to International standards. There is also a cricket stadium in Muzaffarabad with the capacity of 8,000 people. This stadium has hosted 8 matches of Inter-District Under 19 Tournament 2013.

There are also registered football clubs namely, Pilot Football Club,Youth Football Club and Kashmir National FC. Pilot FC is the current champion of the District Football Association Cup (DFA Cup). Mirpur also takes part in the All AJK Football Championship, last year Mirpur was the winner after beating Rawalakot in the final.

Sports in J&K
See also: Jammu and Kashmir cricket team

Royal Springs Golf Course Srinagar

Sports like cricket, football are famous along with sports like golf, skiing, water sports and adventure sports. Srinagar is home to the Sher-i-Kashmir Stadium, a stadium where international cricket matches have been played. The first international match was played in 1983 in which West Indies defeated India and the last international match was played in 1986 in which Australia defeated India by six wickets. Since then no international match have taken place in the stadium due to the prevailing security situation.

Maulana Azad Stadium is a stadium in Jammu and is one of the home venues for the Jammu and Kashmir cricket team. Stadium has hosted home games for Jammu and Kashmir in domestic tournaments since 1966. It has also hosted one One Day International in 1988 between India and New Zealand, which was abandoned due to rain without a ball being bowled. The stadium has played host to one women's test match where India lost to West Indies and one Women's One Day International where India beat New Zealand in 1985.

Srinagar has an outdoor stadium namely Bakshi Stadium for hosting football matches. It is named after Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad.

The city has a golf course named Royal Springs Golf Course, Srinagar located on the banks of Dal lake, which is considered as one of the best golf courses of India.

Ladakh Marathon is held at Leh, is the marathon recognised by Association of International Marathons and Distance Races.[169] Being held at height of 11,500 feet, it is known as the highest marathon in the world. In 2015, Ladakh Marathon was rated among "top ten nicest marathon" in the world.

List of first class cricket grounds

 

[sohailbutt1987]

So why are you so afraid of a vote under scrutiny of UN? Let the vote go through and let Kashmir decide its fate?!

You think you can blow dust in Pakistans eyes with your biased news and information?!

India will burn and burn long and fierce.

 

[hassan zohaib]

so sad even after so much development and pouring of resources these Kashmiris are so much unthankful. they dont respect India and dont even love India. raise slogans " we want Azadi", " go india go back". what a shame for Kashmiris.... so they should be killed by pellets, rifels, tear gases, repeaters etc etc.. these are so much baigarat that they should have generations keep fighting for so-called azadi.

 

[coffee_cup]

The OP is putting intentionally banned word in the title of the thread which should read "Azad Kashmir & Indian Occupied Kashmir"


@Irfan Baloch @WebMaster, would you kindly have a look?

 

[Areesh]

Blind to Pellet injuries

IOK: 100+
AJK: 0

Deaths in recent protests

IOK: Around 60
AJK: 0

Curfew

IOK: around 26 days continuous
AJK: 0

 

[terry5]

----------------------------------Azad Kashmir v IOK

------rapes by security forces 0 - thousands

--------women commiting suicide 0 - 17000
-------due to rape

----------civillians killed by army 0 - 100,000 +
----------mass graves 0 - thousands

 

[dray]

so sad even after so much development and pouring of resources these Kashmiris are so much unthankful. they dont respect India and dont even love India. raise slogans " we want Azadi", " go india go back". what a shame for Kashmiris.... so they should be killed by pellets, rifels, tear gases, repeaters etc etc.. these are so much baigarat that they should have generations keep fighting for so-called azadi.

Just imagine what religious brainwashing and obsession to create a state based on religion does to human beings. Good that India is never going to give in to such obnoxious bigoted demands.

 

[Great Sachin]

So why are you so afraid of a vote under scrutiny of UN? Let the vote go through and let Kashmir decide its fate?!

You think you can blow dust in Pakistans eyes with your biased news and information?!

India will burn and burn long and fierce.

First follow process for vote...

Blind to Pellet injuries

IOK: 100+
AJK: 0

Deaths in recent protests

IOK: Around 60
AJK: 0

Curfew

IOK: around 26 days continuous
AJK: 0

because India did not send terrorists in so called AJK

 

[Areesh]

because India did not send terrorists in so called AJK

None of the 60 killed in IOK were sent by Pakistan

 

[hkdas]

Blind to Pellet injuries

IOK: 100+
AJK: 0

Deaths in recent protests

IOK: Around 60
AJK: 0

Curfew

IOK: around 26 days continuous
AJK: 0

how do u know that?? in AJK there are many protests going on..

none of your media have the balls to report this...

there is no media reports dosn't mean there is no crime.

None of the 60 killed in IOK were sent by Pakistan

no.. all of them are indian, they are just brainwashed by the Pakistani militants... generally pakistan based militan leaders don't have any balls to fight army... so they sit in their rooms in P,O,K and encourage some youths to fight(leaders know the consequences, so they don't go or they don't send their children to fight.. they only send some poor Kashmir youths..)

this what people of P,O,K wanted to say about your army's terrorist supports. it shows the terrorist mentality of your army and the helplessness of the people of P,o,K.


During the last three years, these women have conducted a sustained and vociferous street campaign to shun militants from their native district of Neelum, a river valley located on the northern fringes of Pakistani-administered Kashmir.

This summer has been no less dramatic.

In mid-August, the police stopped a bus-load of these housewives at the main road of Athmuqam town, the headquarters of Neelum district. They led it to the police station and confiscated its registration papers, ordering the driver not to transport his passengers.

The angry women descended from the bus, brushed aside some policemen attempting to stop them, and started to walk on foot to their destination - the nearby army camp, some 6km (4 miles) away along the Line of Control (LoC), a de facto boundary that divides the Kashmir region between India and Pakistan.

When the firing begins, it is us poor people that suffer. This has to stop
Sarwar Jan
They were carrying hand-written placards demanding an end to militant activity in the area which they say provokes Indian firing on their towns and villages.

A crowd of local men had started to gather, and fearing public unrest, the policemen held back, letting the women pass.

I meet one of their leaders, 60-year-old Sarwar Jan, at her house in a village near Athmuqam.

The courtyard where we sit extends into a small patch of farmland where a maize crop has just been harvested. There's an empty cattle shed in one corner.

In front, high on top of the green mountains across the river, I can see a tiny grey spot which she says is an Indian border post.

This entire area seems to be lying open before the Indian guns up there.

"In recent weeks the [Pakistani] army had been telling people to build bunkers, which amounts to telling us that bad times are about to return," she says, explaining the reasons behind the August protest.

"There was also increased visibility of militants in our area. We were afraid that an attempt by them to infiltrate the LoC would invite Indian fire into our area. We had to do something."

Image captionLocal pharmacist Mohammad Khurshid was one of those who led the traders' strike
Unlike other parts of Pakistani-administered Kashmir, where villagers affected by insurgency can move back from the front line when tensions rise, people in the Neelum valley are trapped by Indian positions on one side and the mountains on the other.

It is this desperate situation that has prompted the women of the valley to take action.

Two incidents that followed the women's protest illustrate the deeper undercurrents of the movement they are leading.

Firstly, on the night following the protest, a group of militants tried to cross the LoC and sparked an armed clash with Indian border guards some distance east of Athmuqam, with locals saying they could hear the firing and the shelling.

The next morning, as well as the women marching to the army camp again, the town's traders also pulled down their shutters and held a protest rally in the centre of the town, which was joined by the lawyers from the district bar council.

"The entire district seemed to be up in arms, which made the government officials nervous," says Khwaja Fayyaz Hussain, a local journalist.

Days later, an attempt by militants to cross the LoC was frustrated by none other than the residents of a small village, Ban Chhattar.

"Some three or four armed men tried to cross the river in a rubber boat at night, but were spotted by a villager who raised the alarm," says Malik Naseer, a resident of Ban Chhattar.

The villagers stoned the boatmen and forced them to turn back. Someone also called the police who arrived half an hour later. The suspects had disappeared by then.

But can the Neelum women, and the society that stands behind them, keep the militants at bay forever?

Image captionSarwar Jan (right) and the other women say they bear the brunt of Indian reprisals
Fires rekindled
Analysts say the Neelum housewives are only a tiny factor in the wider geo-strategic war games that the Indian and Pakistani militaries have been playing in Kashmir since their independence in 1947.

In 1948, the two neighbours fought the first of their two wars over Kashmir, leading to the division of the region and the establishment of a ceasefire line - now called the LoC. However, both countries still claim the region and there are often clashes across the LoC.

In 1989, separatist groups supported by Pakistan started an armed insurgency in Indian-administered Kashmir which continued until 2003 and claimed more than 50,000 lives, but failed to shake Indian rule there.

Down the years, the insurgency evolved from a nationalistic war of independence by indigenous Kashmiri groups, to a jihad, or holy war, against India, led mainly by outsiders, predominantly militants from Pakistan's Punjab province.

For several years we didn't have a single moment when we could sit out in the open
Khwaja Fayyaz Hussain, local journalist
By the late 1990s, the Kashmiri fighters had become largely disillusioned with the fighting and withdrew from battle, leaving the field open to the Pakistani groups.

A ceasefire was put in place in 2003, and initially the Pakistani military put the Punjabi militant networks under tighter control. But in recent years there has been a build-up of Punjabi militants along the LoC.

"Fires have been rekindled in the kitchens of some abandoned militant camps, and there are more frequent sightings of their vehicles on the roads, especially after dark," says a top official in Athmuqam, requesting anonymity because he is not authorised to speak on matters of national security.

Analysts point out that such militant activity along the LoC has tended to coincide with signs of improvement in India-Pakistan relations.

The recent tension along the LoC dates from January when the Pakistani government was close to granting preferential trading status to India.

The situation worsened after May's elections which were won by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who has publicly supported normalisation and greater trade relations with India.

Analysts feel that elements in Pakistan's powerful military establishment consider the politicians' overtures to India as premature, and that their surrogate militant groups view tension on the LoC as a means to slow down the process of normalisation.

Most recent clashes along the LoC have taken place further to the south, away from the Neelum valley.

This is quite unlike the past when the geographical isolation of the Neelum valley made it the most favoured spot for militants to launch attacks into Indian-administered Kashmir.

For the Neelum people, this isolation meant they found themselves in an information black hole, in which they suffered countless miseries for 14 years without making headlines.

The valley is an arc-shaped narrow strip of land that runs for some 150km (93 miles) in an east-west direction. It is hemmed in by the Himalayan mountains to the north and east, and by the Indian positions to the south.

The majority of its roughly 300,000 inhabitants live in villages and towns along the Neelum River which flows through the length of the valley.

Most of the main population centres are exposed to Indian fire, and they bore the brunt of the insurgency in the 1990s.

Through the decade, houses and government buildings were flattened by Indian shelling, and underground bunkers multiplied. More than 2,000 civilians lost their lives, while nearly 5,000 were injured or maimed.

"For several years we didn't have a single moment when we could sit out in the open without the fear of a mortar shell landing on our heads," says Khwaja Fayyaz Hussain.

"In 1998, the shelling was so intense it forced us to stay permanently in bunkers. I don't recall when the winter ended and the summer began."

Mohammad Khursheed, a pharmacist who runs a medical store in Athmuqam, says the war gave the people arthritis, a disease which he says is normally rare in mountainous regions.

"We have been treating hundreds of arthritis patients in recent years. They got it because they were forced to spend long hours - sometimes up to 18 hours at a stretch - sitting on damp ground inside the bunkers."

Image captionThe road connecting the valley to the outside world was shut during the fighting
Trying to rebuild
The insurgency also brought economic misery.

The only road connecting the valley to the outside world passes through a narrow corridor at its south-western tip.

Shortly after the start of the insurgency, Indian fire brought traffic on this road to a halt, bottling up the valley. It stayed that way for 14 years.

An alternative road built by the Pakistani army over the mountain passes to the north could only be used by all-terrain vehicles, and increased travel time from two hours to over six.

"There were times when people had to pay 20 times the original price for stuff like cooking oil, bread and vegetables shipped in through this road," says Mr Hussain.

While prices soared, local agricultural production fell sharply because constant shelling by the Indians made farming difficult.

The insurgency also kept the children of the valley away from school for 14 long years, "making them strangers to the alphabet", he says.

Image copyrightREUTERS
Image captionIndia says a large haul of weapons were seized in the Keran sector from militants
Since the ceasefire in 2003, people have been picking up the pieces. Many have rebuilt their houses, but many more are still without the means to do that.

And the spectre of militancy has been raising its head again in the valley.

Despite the mounting opposition they face in Neelum, militants managed to cross the LoC in late September from that area and spent two weeks fighting Indian forces on the other side.

The clashes were going on as the two countries' prime ministers met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

There have also been reports, but few details, of numerous militant forays across the LoC to the north-east, near the town of Kel.

Whether or not the people of Neelum valley will succeed in forcing the authorities to eliminate militants permanently is a question only time will answer.

What is clear is that the women of Neelum valley are in the driving seat in the community's fight against the menace, and for good reason.

"As compared to men, they are less likely to be assassinated by militants or painted as spies by the military, as this would create a scandal and fuel more anger in the wider society," says Arif Bahar, a scholar and journalist based in Muzaffarabad.

And they have a powerful voice, shorn of the restraint that the men sometimes have to show.

"We are poor people. We don't give weapons to the militants. It is the army that gives it to them, and gives them the expenses, and orders restaurants to send them naan bread when they are in town," says Sarwar Jan in a firm voice.

"But when the firing begins, it is us poor people that suffer. This has to stop."

Mohammad Khursheed agrees.

"We can't fight India or Pakistan, but we will stop the militants any way we can, even shoot them," he says.

"If we don't do that, they will drag us back to the life of the 1990s, which is not worth living."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-24426555

people of P,O,K are fed up with Pakistanis, it is actually your army which is making the life of kashmiris(both in indian side and in P.O,K) miserable by supporting militancy.

 

[Areesh]

how do u know that?? in AJK there are many protests going on..

none of your media have the balls to report this...

there is no media reports dosn't mean there is no crime.

Well there is nothing to report. As compared to IOK AJK is far better and peaceful. In fact there is no comparison between the two.

all of them are indian

Nope Kashmiri. All of them that are killed by your security forces.

they are just brainwashed by the Pakistani militants

Then we are pretty good at brainwashing that we brainwashed thousands and thousands of them.

this what people of P,O,K wanted to say about your army's terrorist supports. it shows the terrorist mentality of your army and the helplessness of the people of P,o,K.

Old report. There might be a few minor or extremely minor non relevant issues. Cannot be compared to crimes and excesses of Indian military in IOK.

people of P,O,K are fed up with Pakistanis, it is actually your army which is making the life of kashmiris(both in indian side and in P.O,K) miserable by supporting militancy.

Yeah that is why AJK is peaceful and IOK is hell. Move on buddy. Go fool other bharatis with this bullsh!t. Nobody who knows AJK and IOK would be fooled by this trash.

 

[Sneaker]

So why are you so afraid of a vote under scrutiny of UN? Let the vote go through and let Kashmir decide its fate?!

You think you can blow dust in Pakistans eyes with your biased news and information?!

India will burn and burn long and fierce.

Only after pakistan fulfills UN mandate of withdrawing and handing over occupied kashmir and G&B to India.. add to that we need to restore original demography on both sides of LoC....

 

[Great Sachin]

None of the 60 killed in IOK were sent by Pakistan

and your PM was celebrating black day for nothing

 

[Areesh]

and your PM was celebrating black day for nothing

You are an idiot that's why you can't understand what we were celebrating and why.

 

[Soulspeek]

Paint all days of your calendar black. We dont care!

You are an idiot that's why you can't understand what we were celebrating and why.