Monday 10 November 2014

Poonch House, Rawalpindi

(online sources)

The Poonch House, in Rawalpindi city, Pakistan, is situated on Adamjee Road, main Saddar area. It is an oldish building dating back to around 1921-1922, and is presently in rather poor condition.

Poonch House is one of the buildings the Dogra Maharaja (ruler) of the formerly princely state of Jammu and Kashmir owned in areas that are now part of Pakistan. All these places, commonly referred to as ‘Kashmir properties,’ are in the administrative control of the federal Ministry of Kashmir Affairs. Kashmiri leaders have been demanding that the control of  these properties be given to the elected government of Azad Kashmir (i.e. Pakistani Controlled areas of Kashmir as opposed to Indian Controlled Jammu and Kashmir).

For long, Poonch House housed the camp office of the Azad Kashmir puppet president. However, after the construction of the Kashmir House in Islamabad, the major part of the so-called president’s office was taken over by the ministry, except for three rooms which became the camp office of the Azad Kashmir Election Commission.



                                  Poonch House, Rawalpindi, Pakistan 

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