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	PAF Mirpur Khas
		PAF Mirpur Khas is located in the South of Pakistan approximately 975 kilometers South of Islamabad, 225 kilometers Northeast of Karachi.
		Mirpur Khas is a Forward Operating Base with an aircraft disperal area, and is served by a 10,200 foot long runway with a parrallel taxiway that could be used as an emergency runway.
		Ikonos browse imagery of PAF Mirpur Khas as of 4 December, 2001.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/pakistan/mirpur-khas.htm (129 words)

	Mirpur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mirpur city is situated at 459 meters above sea-level and is linked with the main Peshawar-Lahore Grand Trunk road at Dina Tehsil.It is the headquarter of district Mirpur, which comprises of three sub-divisions, Mirpur,Chaksawari and Dadiyal.
		Mirpur was well planned and the buildings are mostly of modern design, in addition there is significant inward investment from ex-pats now living in the UK and the Middle East.The city has sufficient number of quality hotels,restaurents,shopping malls and other urban facilities.
		Mirpur is developing into an industrial city very rapidly.Foam, Polypropylene, Synthetic yarn, Motorbikes, Textile, vegetable ghee, logging and sawmills, soap, cosmetics, marble, ready-made garments, matches, rosin, turpentine and scooter industrial units have already been established in the area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mirpur (863 words)

	.:: Azad Jammu & Kashmir - Tourism ::.
		Districts Mirpur is located at the extreme South of the State and is linked with Pakistan and the districts of Azad Kashmir through several routes.
		It is situated at a distance of 110 kilometers from Islamabad and is 15 kilometers short of Mirpur City.
		Mirpur, the district headquarter is situated at an elevation of 459 meters A.S.L. It is linked with the main Peshawar- Karachi Grand Trunk Road at Dina, a small town about 15 kilometers short of Jhelum city.
	www.ajk.gov.pk /tourism/mirpur.html (618 words)

	MIRPUR AZAD KASHMIR - Explore the Beauties of PAKISTAN with Sherazi - ContactPakistan.com
		Under the sun's watchful gaze, the valley between Mangla and Mirpur is normally quilted in a hundred different hues of green.
		My journey to Mirpur on motorbike started from Mangla Water Sports Club where earlier the speedboat had been ferrying me (and a few others) across the blue sheet of the artificial lake to its northern extremity.
		And if it does not stop, riding to Mirpur in the dark and rain and that is the time I wished to sit in a vehicle, dry, with four wheels planted firmly on the ground and maybe a hot cup of tea in my hands.
	www.contactpakistan.com /ExplorePakistan/Mirpurak.html (1269 words)

	London blasts felt in Pakistani town - Orlando Sentinel : Business
		MIRPUR, Pakistan -- In a Pakistan unsettled by growing questions about the role of its people in last week's bombings in London, no place is more troubled than this oddly British town.
		Mirpur swelters in quite un-British heat atop the first low hill that pokes up from the northern edge of the humid Indus River valley.
		Mirpur's connection to Britain began in the late 1800s when men from here found work stoking the coal furnaces of British steamers sailing from Bombay.
	www.orlandosentinel.com /business/ny-wotown154344001jul15,0,6271824.story (689 words)

	Tourism @ Pakwatan.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mirpur city is situated at 459m above sea-level and is linked with the main Peshawar-Lahore Grand Trunk road at Dina.
		Mangla is a small but beautiful modern town situated 16Km from Mirpur at the mouth of the Mangla Dam.The construction of the Dam reservoir, which has a perimeter of 400Km, has turned it into a place of interest.
		Bhimber is a sub-division (Thesil) of the district, situated 50Km from Mirpur.
	www.pakwatan.com /main/tourism/city_detail.php3?ID=70 (1304 words)

	Pakistan Times \| Kashmir: Listeners Wait for already-approved Mirpur FM Radio in Azad Kashmir
		MIRPUR: Radio listeners, especially the music lovers, in Mirpur, besides other parts of Azad Kashmir are anxiously waiting for the transmission of the already-approved AJK’s FM Radio in Mirpur.
		To be located in the premises of Azad Kashmir Radio Mirpur station, transmitter of the proposed FM radio is anxiously awaited for installation to bring on air the attractive programs of entertainment.
		Azad Kashmir Radio Mirpur now on air beams its uninterrupted and regular transmissions with its 100 KV strength with a coverage of a vast area of the country besides the occupied Jammu Kashmir.
	pakistantimes.net /2004/12/21/kashmir5.htm (280 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mirpur (Pakistan), Dec. 5: A construction boom fuelled by money from Britain is transforming what was once one of Pakistan’s poorest towns into its “Beverly Hills”.
		And, in a striking example of reverse cultural influence, returnees are bringing such British institutions as greyhound racing and fish and chips back to Mirpur with them.
		In the 1980s, remittance wages began to flow into Mirpur, starting an explosion in demand for electric household goods such as televisions and fridges.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1051206/asp/foreign/story_5564724.asp (345 words)

	The Tribune...Sunday Reading
		Since Mirpur was a stone’s throw away from Pakistan, it was vulnerable and, thus, became Pakistan’s first target.
		Another catastrophe which overtook Mirpur was that while its accession to India was finalised on October 26, and it remained a part and parcel of the same for about a month, it could not be saved from falling a prey to the hawkish designs of the enemy.
		The old Mirpur and its suburbs with their last clay and brick are lying drowned under the deep waters of the dam.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99nov21/sunday/head7.htm (1459 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Guardian daily comment \| Madeleine Bunting: Mirpur history may explain suicide bombers
		First, the families of the three Leeds-based bombers were originally, in all likelihood, from Mirpur, part of Pakistani Kashmir.
		One of the strongest Mirpuri traditions is that you marry your first cousin, so there is a constant exchange with the UK to renew the Mirpuri influence for the next generation.
		Mirpur has been an example - and there are others the world over - of the painful disruption in deeply traditional communities of a sudden influx of wealth and interface with modernity.
	www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,3604,1530581,00.html (1305 words)

	KASHMIR: The Storm Center of the World
		Mirpur: This strategic town of a normal population of about 10 thousand which had swelled to about 25 thousand at the time of its fall was the headquarters of the Mirpur district.
		Mirpur fell on the 25th of November 1947, when the enemy broke open the back gate of the walled town by heavy gunfire.
		The barbarities of the Pakistan troops and civilians on these hapless women who were kept for sometime in Alibeg camp before their dispersal to different towns put to shame the worst orgies of rape and violence associated with the hordes of Ghengiz Khan and Nadir Shah.
	www.kashmir-information.com /Storm/chapter7.html (5749 words)

	Defenceindia : Editorial : Fall of Mirpur
		Mirpur, the erstwhile District Headquarter and Commercial Hub Center of Jammu and Kashmir State, now a part of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK), fell to the cruel hands of raiders on 25th November 1947.
		The whole town having a population of 25,000 souls, was butchered mercilessly only because the noble sons of the soil of Mirpur, had unitedly decided not to allow the raiders to enter into the city even at the cost of their lives.
		The terrified men, women and children in utter chaos and confusion in the midst of heavy firing from all the sides and in the chocking atmosphere due to smoke coming out of the burning houses of the city, marched in a caravan to an unknown land.
	www.defenceindia.com /05-dec-2k5/edit.html (636 words)

	mchprop mchprop3.htm
		Two areas of concern identified by Mirpur community women were the high rate of malnutrition in the community, and the lack of a common meeting area for the community women.
		Mirpur is one of the older slum communities which was established at the end of the Bangladesh War of Independence to accommodate the large numbers of internal war refugees.
		To improve the overall nutritional status of women in their childbearing years and children under 5 in Mirpur, as measured by arm circumference and weight for age in children under 5 showing a 20% improvement over 3 years as compared to the control community.
	dcc2.bumc.bu.edu /IH887/mchprop3.htm (4984 words)

	ASSOCIATED PRESS OF PAKISTAN NEWS SUMMARY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		MIRPUR (AJK), Oct.1 (APP): President, General Pervez Musharraf said on Monday early resumption of talks with India for the resolution of Kashmir issue will be beneficial for India and Pakistan, South Asia and the whole world.
		Mirpur has been linked with the main transmission line of gas passing along the Grand Trunk Road at Sarie Alamgir by laying 36 kms long transmission line.
		The existing Mirpur city, 1.30 lakh population of the old areas in outskirt of the city would be benefited from natural gas.
	www.infopak.gov.pk /news/appnews/appnews2002/app_oct01_2002.htm (7145 words)

	Drishtipat: Voice of Human Rights - Rab action in Tongi, Mirpur kills 4
		In the other incident in Mirpur, Rab-4 allegedly shot Billal Ullah, brother-in-law of listed criminal Kala Jahangir and a man with criminal records, to death after locals beat him up for firing at a teacher of Dhaka College yesterday.
		Mirpur police sent a critically injured Billal to the DMCH at 7:30am where doctors declared him dead.
		Billal is accused in several cases including four for murders with Mirpur Police Station, said the officer-in-charge of the station.
	www.drishtipat.org /nuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=160 (1390 words)

	HHMI Bulletin Mirpur's Children
		They are the children of Mirpur, one of many such neighborhoods in Dhaka, and they get amebiasis at an alarming rate.
		In some children, infection from the parasite Entamoeba histolytica does not necessarily lead to illness, and when illness does occur, it tends to be less acute than other diarrheal diseases such as cholera and rotavirus.
		During this two-hour visit to Mirpur, the power has gone out three times, the water stopped and a political demonstration blocked the roads.
	www.hhmi.org /bulletin/dec2001/bangladesh/bangladesh2.html (1169 words)

	BBC - Legacies - Immigration and Emigration - England - Bradford - Home from home - Article Page 1
		The largest percentage of them are the Pakistanis, the vast majority of whom have their roots in and around the Mirpur District of southern Azad Kashmir.
		Mirpur is a land of migrants; for over 100 years men have been leaving the area to seek work elsewhere.
		The photographs seen here were taken in Bradford and in Mirpur itself.
	www.bbc.co.uk /legacies/immig_emig/england/bradford/article_1.shtml (261 words)

	UK move on Mirpur consul irks India -DAWN - Top Stories; 16 December, 2004
		NEW DELHI, Dec 15: India has protested to Britain over the appointment of an honorary consul in Mirpur, pointing out to London that its office was being located in what India calls Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK), the Indian Express reported on Wednesday.
		Forty-four-year-old Saeed is a local businessman with strong connections in the UK and has been awarded a five-year term by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, according to the Express report.
		It said stung by the appointment in Mirpur, New Delhi "registered a strong protest with London on the grounds that the city is located in an area that has been illegally occupied by Pakistan".
	www.dawn.com /2004/12/16/top12.htm (276 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
		The long drive from Lahore to Mirpur through the heartland of Punjab was uneventful except for an encounter with a fruit vendor.
		Mirpur is a new town where people began to arrive in the mid-sixties when the old Mirpur town became a casualty of the Mangla dam.
		Mirpur owes its prosperity to the Non-Resident Kashmiris, who are mostly in the UK.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2004/20041124/main8.htm (835 words)

	Pakistan: Mirpur - photos of Azad Kashmir on Worldisround
		Azad Kashmir - travel photos - The City of Mirpur has a population of 354,400 and is situated 459 meters above sea-level....
		The City of Mirpur has a population of 354,400 and is situated 459 meters above sea-level.
		Mirpur is infact two cities; the Old City which had been around for hundreds of years and the New City which was made in the 1960s.
	www.worldisround.com /articles/196469 (168 words)

	London blasts felt in Pakistani town : The Morning Call Online
		With the news that three of the four bombers were Pakistani Britons - and that at least one of them may have been radicalized during religious studies in Pakistan - Mirpur fears a British backlash that could devastate the economy here.
		While some residents still live in crowded hovels, families in Britain have built scores of fabulous palaces here, confections of marble, tile, glass, columns and wrought iron that rise three or four stories.
		Many such mansions are virtually empty except for a few weeks a year, when their owners return for holidays, family weddings or funerals.
	www.mcall.com /news/nationworld/ny-wotown154344001jul15,0,3964493.story (765 words)

	Mirpur
		Most of these people settled in new Mirpur whilst some moved to Pakistan and the UK.
		Textile, vegetable ghee, logging and sawmills, soap, cosmetics, marble, ready-made garments, matches, rosin, turpentine and Vespa scooter industrial units have already been established in the area.
		A castle situated on the lake-side serves as a historical back-drop.
	www.gharib.demon.co.uk /ajk/mirpur.htm (559 words)

	BBC News \| From Our Own Correspondent \| Living with the floods
		Life is not easy in the slums of the Mirpur district of Dhaka at the best of times.
		The people of Mirpur move around on long bamboo pathways which dip in and out of the water.
		One man on the fringe of a Sheikh Hasina rally in Narsingdi was Faradur Rahman.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/168393.stm (944 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 310 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		And in Mirpur, a mob gouged an eye out of an alleged mugger after a gang of four went to a rice mill to collect tolls.
		General Secretary of Mirpur Katakapar Byaboshayee Samity Market Monsur Ahmed Mallik said they would stage a demonstration, to be decided at a meeting today, demanding arrest of the killers.
		In Badda, five gunmen shot and killed an accused in a murder case and wounded a boy at around 7:30am when the former was on his way to appear before a court in the city.
	www.thedailystar.net /2004/04/12/d4041201044.htm (731 words)

	Top Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A businessman was killed and his son injured when a gang of unidentified assailants opened fire on them near a mosque at South Bisil in Mirpur area of the city yesterday.
		As the news of the death of Kazi Shahidullah, a wealthy businessman of the city, spread in Mirpur area, locals including traders took to the street in protest and blocked traffic on Mirpur Road.
		Kazi Shahidullah, son of late Alhaj Ali Hossain Kazi, was a resident of 165, South Bisil under Mirpur police station.
	independent-bangladesh.com /news/aug/13/13082005ts.htm (566 words)

	Mirpur trader dies of injuries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Businessman Aftabuddin Hossain, general secretary of Mukta Bangla Market at Mirpur-1, who was shot and wounded by unidentified gunmen in front of his house on Sunday, succumbed to his injuries at Samrita Hospital Wednesday.
		The news of his death sparked protests in Mirpur area where traders shut down their shops at different markets.
		Mamun Al Quiyum was arrested from Dhaka Medical College Hospital and Munshi Ebadul from Mirpur area on Sunday shortly after the attack on Aftab Hossain.
	nation.ittefaq.com /artman/publish/printer_24238.shtml (268 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 563 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Criminals shot a businessman at Mirpur yesterday sparking angry protests by locals who damaged several vehicles and shops and disrupted vehicular traffic in the area for an hour.
		Officer-in-Charge of Mirpur Police Station last night said they could neither arrest anyone, nor have any clue to the incident.
		Shopkeepers of Mirpur take to the street yesterday after extortionists shot a local business leader for his refusal to give them Tk 10 lakh as toll.
	www.thedailystar.net /2005/12/26/d5122601055.htm (413 words)

	The Hindu : National : Mirpur residents face displacement
		The entire Mirpur city was flooded as it formed part of the area comprising the dam's reservoir.
		A new city was established but it failed to solve the problems caused by the largescale displacement.
		But those who are displaced would be given money as compensation, as per prevailing market rates." But Mirpur residents were not very hopeful, in the light of their past experience.
	www.hindu.com /2006/02/19/stories/2006021904151200.htm (438 words)

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