Pallandri, Pakistan
پلندری
Pallandri is a town of 23,243 people in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan.
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About Pallandri
Pallandri (Urdu: پلندری), also spelled Palandri and formerly Pulandari, is a tehsil and the administrative capital of Sudhanoti District in Azad Kashmir, a part of Kashmir administered by Pakistan. It was the initial proposed capital of Azad Kashmir and the epicentre of the 1955 Poonch uprising led by the Sudhan tribe.
From the Wikipedia article Pallandri Tehsil (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
History
On 21 October 1947, a day before the outbreak of the India–Pakistan war of 1947–1948, an Indian journalist in Lahore, Pakistan, named Shri GK Reddy mistakenly received a trunk call from Lieutant Colonel Alavi, then the public relations officer of the Pakistan Army. Alavi believed he was speaking to a Muslim official and informed Reddy that preparations were underway to form Azad Kashmir with Pallandri as its capital. Reddy immediately fled from Lahore to Bombay (present-day Mumbai) in India and his story was reported in the weekly newspaper Blitz on 9 June 1948.
Pallandri was central to the 1955 Poonch uprising by the local Sudhan populace, which presented demands for greater autonomy. The rebellion was incited by the removal of the Sudhan leader Sardar Ibrahim Khan, and the attempted assassination of Sher Ahmed Khan in February 1955 marked the beginning of the uprising-proper.
From the History section of Pallandri Tehsil on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Getting there and nearby towns
Rawalakot Airport (RAZ) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 18 km away.
- Kamra 16 km west, about 16 min by car
- Rawalakot 17 km northeast, about 17 min by car
- Khai Gala 20 km northeast, about 20 min by car
- Hajira 21 km east, about 21 min by car
- Sehnsa 23 km south, about 23 min by car
- Saidpur 57 km west, about 57 min by car
- Rawalpindi 60 km west, about 1 h by car
- Islamabad 59 km west, about 59 min by car
- New Mirpur City 63 km south, about 1 h by car
- Muzaffarābād 75 km north, about 1 h 15 min by car
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- Wikimedia Commons (see each image): photos
- Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): overview and history text
Photo credits
- Pallandri, Ali Sudhozai, CC BY-SA 4.0
- STS127-E-11765 - View of atmospheric limb, NASA, Public domain
- STS127-E-11766 - View of atmospheric limb, NASA, Public domain
- ISS027-E-31226 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
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