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Poonch Division

division of Azad Kashmir, Pakistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ24054534 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Poonch Division (Urdu: پونچھ ڈِوِژن) is a first-order administrative division of the Pakistani–administered territory of Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir. It comprises the portion of the former Poonch Jagir of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir that came under Pakistani control at the end of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947.

Administrative districts

Currently, the Poonch Division consists of the following districts:

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External links

Districts plotted on OpenStreetMap: Sudhanoti, Poonch, Bagh, Haveli.

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The public source identifies “Poonch Division” as division of Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Poonch, Division and division.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1947—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Poonch, Division and division providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Poonch Division” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.