POK the untold story

Pakistan Occupied Kashmir : The Untold Story/edited by Virendra Gupta and Alok Bansal. New Delhi, Manas Pub., 2007, 252 p., $28. ISBN 81-7049-315-3.
Contents: Preface. The contributors. 1. Indo-Pak relations and the Kashmir issue/Virendra Gupta. 2. Gilgit and Baltistan: the historical dimension/P. Stobdan. 3. Dawn of independence and the tribal raid/S. Kalyanaraman. 4. Annexation of Gilgit-Baltistan: Tumultuous Events of 1947-48/Alok Bansal. 5. A history of POK -- 'Pakistan Occupied Kashmir'/Parvez Dewan. 6. An itinerant's journey through 'Pakistan Occupied Kashmir'/Maloy Krishna Dhar. 7. Suppression of Gilgit-Baltistan/Samuel Baid. 8. How Azad is 'Azad Kashmir': an analysis of relations between Islamabad and Muzaffarabad/Smruti S. Pattanaik. 9. Economic exploitation of Gilgit-Baltistan/Shafqat Inqalabi. 10. The Indus, POK and the peace process: building on the foundations of the Indus Water Treaty/B.G. Verghese. 11. The growing alienation in Gilgit-Baltistan: the future portents/Alok Bansal. Index.
"'Pakistan Occupied Kashmir: The Untold Story' is a book about the territory of Jammu and Kashmir under Pakistani occupation. The region has been split up into two administrative units: Gilgit-Baltistan and Mirpur-Muzaffarabad, officially termed by Pakistanis as the 'Northern Areas', and 'Azad Kashmir' respectively. The media has constantly focused on the Kashmir Valley, while the POK has remained neglected. Ignorance about the region borders on apathy. Even the circumstances under which the territory was occupied and the manner in which it was annexed by Pakistan, has not so far been investigated by the scholars in requisite detail.
The book contains chapters by ten scholars who have been studying the events in this region for a number of years. These scholarly chapters cover different facets of both the regions that constitute the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK). They trace the circumstances surrounding Pakistan's occupation of the territory, its current legal status, and the growing popular discontentment." (jacket)
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