The Jhelum River [needs IPA] is a river in the northern Indian subcontinent.It originates at Verinag and flows through the Indian administered territory of Jammu and Kashmir, to the Pakistani-administered territory of Kashmir, and then into the Pakistani province of Punjab.It is the westernmost of the five rivers of the Punjab region, and flows through the Kashmir Valley.

After the Partition of India, during October–November 1947 in the Jammu region of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, many Muslims were massacred and others driven away to West Punjab.The killings were carried out by extremist Hindus and Sikhs, aided and abetted by the forces of Maharaja Hari Singh. The activists of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) …

The 2005 Kashmir earthquake occurred at 08:50:39 Pakistan Standard Time on 8 October in Pakistani-administered Azad Kashmir.It was centred near the city of Muzaffarabad, and also affected nearby Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and some areas of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir.It registered a moment magnitude of 7.6 and had a maximum Mercalli intensity of …

Murree (Punjabi, Urdu: مری) is a mountain resort city, located in the Galyat region of the Pir Panjal Range, within the Muree District of Punjab, Pakistan.It forms the outskirts of the Islamabad-Rawalpindi metropolitan area, and is about 30 km (19 mi) northeast of Islamabad.It has average altitude of 2,291 metres (7,516 ft). The British built this town during their rule to escape the ...

Higher education in Pakistan is the systematic process of students continuing their education beyond secondary school, learned societies and two-year colleges.The governance of higher education is maintained under the Higher Education Commission (Pakistan) (HEC) which oversees the financial funding, research outputs and teaching quality in the country.

The 2016–2017 unrest in Kashmir, also known as the Burhan aftermath, refers to violent protests in the Kashmir and Chenab valleys, Poonch and Rajouri districts of Northern Jammu division in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.It started with the killing of Burhan Wani by Indian security forces on 8 July 2016. Wani was a commander of the Kashmir-based Islamic militant …

Campuses. The main campus of Cuba's ELAM is in western Havana in the Santa Fe district of the municipio of Playa, close to the village of Playa Baracoa.This 1.2 km² campus is built on the site of an old naval academy and overlooks the sea. It consists of 28 buildings with 80 classrooms, 37 laboratories, five amphitheaters, dormitories, an infirmary, and other facilities.

The M-2 Motorway or the Lahore–Islamabad Motorway (Urdu: لاہور-اسلام آباد موٹروے) is a north–south motorway in Pakistan, connecting Rawalpindi/Islamabad to Lahore, and is the first motorway to have been built in South Asia. [citation needed] The M-2 is 375 km long and located entirely in Punjab.It continues on to eventually become the M-1 Motorway, which terminates in ...

Haripur (Pashto: هریپور; Hindko and Urdu: ہری پور) is the main city of the Haripur District in Hazara, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan, with Swabi and Buner to the west, some65 km (40 mi) north of Islamabad and 35 km Khanpur Road Tofkian Valley Taxila and 35 km (22 mi) south of Abbottabad.It is in a hilly plain area at an altitude of 520 m (1,706 ft).

Azad Jammu and Kashmir (/ ˌ ɑː z æ d k æ ʃ ˈ m ɪər /; transl. 'Free Jammu and Kashmir'), abbreviated as AJK and colloquially referred to as simply Azad Kashmir, is a region administered by Pakistan as a nominally self-governing entity and constituting the western portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947.