Border and Boundaries : Pakistan’s Claim Over Pak Occupied Kashmir (PoK)

Contents: Preface. 1. Pakistan and India border. 2. Drawing the India and Pakistani boundary. 3. India-Pakistan-China in Kashmir border. 4. India and Pakistan border dispute. 5. India-Pakistan border skirmishes. 6. Pakistan administered Kashmir. 7. India, Pakistan and Kashmir dispute. 8. Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Bibliography. Index. 

Called as Azad Kashmir in Pakistan the PoK (Pakistan occupied Kashmir) has been a bone of contention between the two neighboring countries since 1947. The region is referred by United Nations and other international organizations, as ‘Pakistani-controlled Kashmir (or Pakistan administered Kashmir) and it was renamed as Pakistan-occupied Jammu-Kashmir by the Modi Government. The 13, 297 square kilometers region which has an estimated population of about four million has added fuel to the burning enmity between India and Pakistan. Pakistan authorities refer to the 1933 Pakistan declaration and claim Kashmir to be one of the Indian units that were to secede from India and join Pakistan.