6-558: The High Court of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (commonly known as Azad Kashmir High Court ) is an appellate court in Muzaffarabad , Azad Jammu and Kashmir . It hears appeals from the District Courts of Azad Kashmir. The court has three circuit benches based in Kotli , Mirpur , and Rawalakot . In 2016, Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob Khan , president of Azad Kashmir appointed Raja Sadaqat Hussain as
12-613: A permanent judge of the High Court of Azad Jammu and Kashmir in consultation with the High Court chief justice and on the advice of the Kashmir Council. This Pakistan -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Muzaffarabad Muzaffarabad ( / ˌ m ʊ z ə ˌ f æ r ə ˈ b æ d / ; Urdu : مُظَفَّر آباد , IPA : [mʊzəffərɑːbɑːd] ) is a city in Pakistani -administered Azad Kashmir in
18-573: Is estimated to have killed up to 80,000 people in the Pakistani-controlled areas. As of 8 October 2005 , the Pakistani government 's official death toll was 87,350, while other estimates have put the death toll at over 100,000. The district of Muzaffarabad is administratively divided into 2 tehsils , which are subdivided into 25 union councils . Muzaffarabad's public transportation system primarily relies on buses, rickshaws, and small pickup trucks for intracity travel. Following
24-518: The Jammu and Kashmir State Forces in the town of Muzaffarabad. The battle resulted in a rapid defeat of the Jammu and Kashmir State Forces, leading to the capture of Muzaffarabad by the tribesmen. The city was near the epicenter of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake , which had a magnitude of 7.6 M w . The earthquake destroyed about 50 percent of the buildings in the city (including most government buildings) and
30-643: The disputed Kashmir region. It is the largest city and the capital of Azad Kashmir, which is a Pakistani-administered administrative territory . The city is located in Muzaffarabad District , near the confluence of the Jhelum and Neelum rivers. The district is bounded by the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the west, the Kupwara and Baramulla districts of Indian -administered Jammu and Kashmir in
36-626: The east, and the Neelum District in the north. Muzaffarabad was founded in 1646 by Sultan Muzaffar Khan , chief of the Bomba tribe who ruled Kashmir . Khan also constructed the Red Fort that same year for the purpose of warding off incursions from the Mughal Empire . The Battle of Muzaffarabad occurred on 22 October 1947 between Pakistani-backed Pashtun tribesmen, pro-Pakistani Kashmiri rebels, and
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