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	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 (857 words)

	Bhimber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prior to this it was a sub-division (Tehsil) of the Mirpur district.
		The district is bounded by Mirpur district to the northwest, and Punjab in the west and south.
		According to 1998 census, the total population of the district stands at 297,000, while its population according to 1999 projections is approximately 303,000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bhimber (167 words)

	Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP), South Asia Terrorism Portal
		September 24: Asadul, a 'district commander' of the PBCP-Janajuddha faction, was killed in crossfire between police and the outfit's cadres in the Mirpur sub-district of Kushtia district.
		September 4: Saifuzzaman alias Shoaib alias Ripon, second-in-command of the PBCP-Janajuddha faction, was killed in a shootout with the RAB personnel at Katakhali crossing in the Rupsha sub-district of Khulna district.
		February 9: In the Jhenidah district, a PBCP- Janajuddha regional leader, Sajahan Ali, was killed in an encounter with the police at Lakhmipur village.
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/bangladesh/terroristoutfits/PBCP.htm (7574 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)

	Tourism @ Pakwatan.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Mirpur district comprises partly plain and partly hilly areas.
		Mirpur city is situated at 459m above sea-level and is linked with the main Peshawar-Lahore Grand Trunk road at Dina.
		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)

	KASHMIR: The Storm Center of the World
		The real brunt of Pak aggression was borne by parts of Jammu province particularly its western Muslim majority district of Mirpur and trans-Himalayan regions of Gilgit, Baltistan and Laddakh.
		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.
	www.kashmir-information.com /Storm/chapter7.html (5749 words)

	Kotli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The district headquarter is at a distance of 141Km from Islamabad (capital of Pakistan).
		Aghaar Sharif, consisting of a large Mosque and a Shrine (of the late Qazi Fateh Alam), under the guidance of Hazrat Sahib, is a large complex on the outskirts of the city.
		Sehnsa is a sub-divisional (Thesil) headquarters of Kotli district in the center of Sehnsa valley.
	www.gharib.demon.co.uk /ajk/kotli.htm (768 words)

	10. RECOMMENDATIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In southern district - Mirpur, a large area of land (private as well as public owned) along the main irrigation canal called Upper Jhelum Canal (UJC) are observed being wasted in the form of wetland/wasteland due to the water seepage from UJC.
		A number of private sector farmers at Mirpur are very much interested in fish culture but they are hesitant to take up the activity in large scale or commercial scale in lack of technical support service in the district.
		To bring these enthusiastic private sector farmers of Mirpur in main stream of warm water fish culture/aquaculture as well as for the smooth implementation of the project activities also, a qualified Assistant Director,- Fisheries need to be deployed with immediate effective at Mirpur district.
	www.fao.org /docrep/field/373987/3739870a.htm (1529 words)

	HIMAL SOUTH ASIAN \| November 2003 \| Commentary \| Softening the Line of Control
		The rest of the districts of Pakistani Kashmir were either in Jammu province or in the frontier province of Ladakh and are now called Northern Areas in Pakistan.
		Mirpur was the largest constituent of Azad Kashmir and comprises the tehsils of Bhimber, Kotli and Mirpur.
		The district lies on the famous Mughal road, passing through Mirpur-Bimber-Rajouri, which was the main artery connecting the state with the rest of the country.
	www.himalmag.com /2003/november/commentary_2.htm (1534 words)

	FISHERIES DEVELOPMENT IN AZAD JAMMU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		As the longer winter in the northern districts of AJK, the growing days are less compared to the warmer southern district, the farmer has to grow for longer periods of 18 to 24 months to produce table-size fish if he has to start culture with small sized fingerlings.
		Presently, there are 16 operational private fish farms in the northern district, mostly at Muzaffarabad district, and 30 fish farms (excluding the farms established under the Suketar Project) in the southern districts of Mirpur.
		The northern districts of AJK have severe cold during three months of October - March for 6 months and hot climatic conditions during the other 6 months commencing from April - September; the southern districts are instead warm and hot throughout the year.
	www.fao.org /docrep/field/382453.htm (12413 words)

	Tourism @ Pakwatan.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Until 1990, the present district of Tharparkar, Umerkot and Mirpur Khas comprised one district with Mirpur Khas its headquarters.
		The district lies between 24° 10' to 25°45' north latitudes and 69' 04' to 71°06' east longitude.
		It is bounded on the north by Mirpurkhas and Umerkot districts, on east by Barmer and Jaisselmir districts of India, on west by district Badin and on south by Rann of Kutch.
	www.pakwatan.com /main/tourism/city_detail.php3?ID=62 (2000 words)

	Tourism @ Pakwatan.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Azad Kashmir extends from the plains of Mirpur at the northern edge of the Punjab through the outlying foothills of the Himalayas, to the mountains in the north at 6,000 meters above sea level.
		All the four districts have lush green forests which provide cool breeze and foliage to the visitors.
		District wise population in 1981 census and projection in 1994.
	www.pakwatan.com /main/tourism/PARADISE.php3 (354 words)

	THARPARKAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The district is mostly desert and consist of barren tracts of sand dunes covered with thorny bushes.
		The other birds found ill the district are partridge (favncolinus pondocerianus menaesis), barn owl (tyto alba), Indian scoops owl (otus bakkamoena), Sindh night jar (caprimulgus mahrattensis), Indian night jar (caprimulgus asiaticus), dove (streptopelia senegalensis), large hawk cuckoo (hierococcyx sparverioides) particularly in nagar parkar, spotted sand grouse (pterocles senegallus) particularly in nagar parkar.
		In the district dangerous snakes viz khapar, cobra and others are generally found in the rainy season to a great extent.
	www.tharparkar.sdnpk.org /au.htm (1038 words)

	Azad Kashmir
		Ten miles west of Mirpur, at the end of a jeep road, Jangwan is the well known shining spot on the confluence of the Jhelum and Poonch rivers.
		Bagshar lake is an ideal tourist resort in the Samhani valley in Mirpur district.
		Rawalakot is situated in the heart of Poonch district at a height of 6,000 feet and is a plain saucer shaped valley.
	www28.brinkster.com /pakistan4ever/htmls/azadk.asp (2490 words)

	Blast accused sentenced to death in AJK
		Muzaffarabad: A district criminal court of Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday handed down capital punishment for 10 times to an accused of a deadly bomb blast in the region five years ago which had killed 10 people.
		The judgment was delivered on Wednesday in the southern Mirpur town on the basis of evidence and record, the officials said.
		The district criminal court, comprising district and sessions judges Abdul Rashid Salaria and district Qazi Maqboolur Rehman, held that the accused had mercilessly killed and wounded innocent people for personal gains and did not deserve any clemency.
	www.jammu-kashmir.com /archives/archives2004/kashmir20041229b.html (258 words)

	.:: Azad Jammu & Kashmir - Tourism ::.
		The area now comprising district Kotli was a sub-division of Mirpur district upto the year 1975.
		District Kotli is a hilly area rising gradually towards the high mountains of Poonch district.
		Kotli, the District Headquarter, is at a distance of 141 kilometers from Rawalpindi / Islamabad via Sensa, Holar and Kahuta.
	www.ajk.gov.pk /tourism/kotli.html (384 words)

	Briefings :: 43,300 died, 3 million displaced in AJK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The latest AJK government-published statistics about the damage caused by the quake reveal that out of the 1313 villages in the districts, 1,050 have been affected by the earthquake.
		In the district, 49 medical facilities were destroyed and 40 damaged.
		MIRPUR: Six people were killed and 11 injured in Mirpur district with no incidence of any collapse of houses or buildings there.
	www.punjabilok.com /punb2/full.php?p=1871&more=1 (469 words)

	ABNTV.com - News and Entertainment
		In Mirpur district a total of 34 candidates including those nominated by various political parties as well as independent candidates are contesting the election in all four electoral constituencies of the district including LA-1 (Dadayal) 11 candidates, LA-2 (Chakswari) 4 candidates, LA-3 (Mirpur city) 10 candidates and LA-4 (Khari) 9 candidates.
		The Chief Election Commissioner was speaking at meeting of District Returning Officers, Returning Officers, officials of the district administration and the polling staff at the training camp at Municipal Corporation Hall set up here Tuesday for the training of the polling staff.
		District Returning Officer Abdul Rashid Sulehriya, Returning Officers, Deputy Commissioner Ghulam Bashir Mughal, SSP Khalid Mahmood Chauan, Additional S.P Chaudhry Muhammad Rafiq, DSP City Raja Irfan Salim and other officials of the divisional and district administration attended the meeting.
	www.abntv.com /htowndetail.asp?cityid=612&city=Bhakkar (2163 words)

	Plan chalked out to promote investment in Azad Kashmir -DAWN - National; May 18, 2003
		MIRPUR (AJK), May 17: A comprehensive strategy has been chalked out to encourage foreign investments by the overseas Pakistanis and especially the Kashmiri expatriates based in United Kingdom to ensure speedy industrial progress of Azad Kashmir.
		He was addressing at the convention-cum-oath-taking ceremony of Mirpur district AJK Non-Gazetted Employees Organization here on Friday.
		Referring to other ongoing development projects of public welfare in Mirpur, the minister said that 70 per cent work of the ongoing Sui gas supply lines project in Mirpur and surrounding areas would be completed within the next couple of weeks.
	www.dawn.com /2003/05/18/nat4.htm (392 words)

	MINERAL RESOURCES OF RAJOURI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The state Jammu and Kashmir particularly the district Rajouri which is rounded by Riasi in east, Mirpur district (Occupied by Pakistan) in west and Kashmir valley in north and Poonch district in northwest is endowed with metallic, non- metallic minerals and solid fuel.
		The terrain of the Rajouri is mountainous having maximum altitude of 4535 m in Dhakiar-rupri area on the Pir Panjal Range, the southwestern flank of which forms the northern periphery of the area, whereas the Sivalik and murree hills from the southern part of the area.
		Though district Rajouri is devoid of any significant occurrence of iron ores but in Gagrot-Khandli devi area iron ore occurs in a lenticular band associated with carbonaceous and fessuginous shake and slate.
	rajouri.nic.in /mineral.htm (783 words)

	The Hindu : National : PoK diaspora make their economic presence felt
		Mirpur: A five-lakh strong diaspora from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir has made an imprint on the political, economic and social life in this city.
		In fact, the entire Mirpur city and neighbouring hamlets were submerged after the construction of the reservoir.
		The migration from Mirpur district led to a similar exodus from the Gujjar-populated belts of Kotli and even a few pockets of Rawalkot.
	www.hindu.com /2006/02/26/stories/2006022604441200.htm (515 words)

	Terrorism Update
		Bashir Ahmed Ganai alias DC, a ‘district commander’ of the Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen (TuM) was reportedly shot dead by troops of the Rashtriya Rifles during a cordon-and-search operation at Daanseer village in the Beerwah area of Budgam district.
		One United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) terrorist, identified as Rohit Mardi, was killed in an encounter with troops of the Red Horns division of the Army at Pachim Mannatari village in the Nalbari district of Assam.
		One National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K) militant, identified as Pangran Jugli, from Rangran village in the Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh is reported to have surrendered to the police on June 12.
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=6/15/2004 (1690 words)

	Pakistan News PakTribune.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		MIRPUR, December 25 (Online): The Secretary General of Azad Jammu Kashmir Chamber of Agriculture Raja Ijaz Salim has called for the adoption of latest agricultural means for the promotion of this sector to meet the requirement of the increased population in the country including Azad Jammu Kashmir.
		Abdul Aziz from Mirpur district, Capt (r) Saddar ud din, Raja Abdul Raoof and Malik Shafique from Kotli district, Raja Feroze Khan and Ch.
		Bashir Hussain from Bagh District, Muhammad Ayub and Sardar Imtiaz Hussain from Rawalakot district and Bashir Hussain Gillani, Raja Tanvir Ahmed from Muzaffarabad district and Raja Muhammad Ishaq, Raja Muhammad Iqbal, Mirza Zaffar Hussain and Ch.
	www.paktribune.com /news/index.php?id=88068 (455 words)

	Gateway to Sikhism :Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It was on or about the 10th of Maghar (November) last when the last attack was made at Mirpur and the State forces gave way, leaving all the citizens at the mercy of Pathans.
		Hussain, tonga-driver of village Kotian, thana Aurangabad, District Gujrat.
		On the 11th of Maghar corresponding to 26th November Mirpur was set on fire by the raiders sin the forenoon.
	www.allaboutsikhs.com /books/gst/app-03.htm (4166 words)

	Kashmiri groups oppose division -DAWN - Top Stories; 24 November, 2004
		MIRPUR, Nov 23: Kashmiris, including politicians, lawyers and religious figures, on Tuesday opposed the division of their disputed state in any future settlement as they spoke to a group of visiting journalists from India and the occupied Kashmir.
		In several meetings after the 22 journalists arrived in Mirpur on Monday night at the start of their week-long and first ever trip to Azad Kashmir, traditional calls for holding UN-mandated plebiscite to decide whether Kashmir should accede to Pakistan or India seemed to take a back seat.
		Leaders of a group of migrants from the Rajauri district of the Indian-held Kashmir, led by Javed Iqbal Mirza, called for opening a bus route between Rajauri and Mirpur districts.
	www.dawn.com /2004/11/24/top11.htm (855 words)

	Religioscope > Archives > Bangladesh: increasing number of women using the veil
		Adolescent Lipi Quamrun Nahar Khan, who stays in Mirpur district, said that since three-wheeler paddle rickshaws were not allowed in her area, she had to use the bus to go to school and hence she had taken to wearing a veil.
		Raunak Jahan, a newly wed woman in Rajshahi district, said she even attended an interview in a school wearing a veil because her in-laws asked her to do so.
		The districts of Satkhira, Khulna, Noakhali and Barisal, considered strongholds of Islamic parties, are also places that see the largest number of veil sales.
	www.religioscope.info /article_218.shtml (590 words)

	Pakistan Times.net
		At the same time Deputy Commissioner Mirpur Ghulam Bashir Mughal Friday categorically contradicted a report carried by a section of the electronic media about breaking out of the epidemic of bird flue in the district following the suspicious killing of the highly-valuable water birds.
		Deputy Commissioner said that a team of expertise of World Health Organization is also reaching Mirpur to investigate into the impacts and causes of the killing of water birds.
		He said that the local Wild Life and Fisheries Department has also sent the samples of the dead birds in the labs of the Agriculture Research Center Islamabad for anatomy of the killed water birds to get detected and confirmed the cause of their death.
	pakistantimes.net /kashmir02250601.htm (661 words)

	London blasts felt in Pakistani town - Orlando Sentinel : Business
		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.
		The flow of British pounds to Mirpur has half-transformed what was once one of Pakistan's poorest areas.
	www.orlandosentinel.com /business/ny-wotown154344001jul15,0,6271824.story (711 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)

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