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Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK or POK) is the name given by India to a portion of Jammu and Kashmir controlled by Pakistan and China. It is also refered to as Azad Kashmir, which in Urdu means "Free Kashmir". After the partition of undivided India into India and Pakistan,the Maharaja of Kashmir who had an option of either joining India or Pakistan,chose to join the Indian Republic, however what is not told to the world is that there were states within India which wanted to join Pakistan, and were not allowed. One of these states was Hyderabad, which today is in India. Quite the contradiction; regardless when decision was made on what country should take what state, it was decided that majority Muslim states would go to Pakistan and majority Hindu states would go to India. Kashmir has been ever since 1947 a majority Muslim state which means it belongs to Pakistan. Ater 1947, Indian army went into Kashmir and invaded it well knowing the majority of the people did not want to (and still do to this day) not want to be apart of India. The area that was left under Pakistani control after the 1947 Indo-Pak war came to be known as Azad Kashmir.

Pakistan divided this area into three parts:

1. Azad Jammu & Kashmir,
2. The Northern Areas, which are administered as a de facto 'Union Territory' and as an integral part of Pakistan, and
3. A small part of Northern Areas that was ceded to China by Pakistan in 1963 with the proviso that the settlement was subject to the final solution of the Kashmir dispute.

External Links

http://www.ummah.org.uk/kashmir

• Kashmir