More information on Mirpuris.
''Azad Jammu and Kashmir is 5,134 square miles (13,297 square kilometers) in area.
The total population was 2,973,000 according to the population census of 1998, and was estimated to be 3,271,000 in 2002, of whom 87.5 percent live in rural areas and 12.5 percent are urban. The population density is 246 persons per square kilometer. The literacy rate was reported as 55 percent in the 1998 census and was estimated to be 60 percent in 2002, which is higher than in Pakistan.
2 The territory also enjoys a very high primary school enrollment rate for both boys and girls, at over 90 percent.
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Azad Kashmir is divided into Muzaffarabad and Mirpur divisions, which are further subdivided into eight administrative districts: Muzaffarabad division comprises Muzaffarabad, Neelum, Bagh, Poonch, and Sudhnutti districts; Mirpur division comprises Mirpur, Kotli, and Bhimber districts. Muzaffarabad city is the territory’s capital.
Though the Mirpuris are the closest geographical and cultural relatives of the Potohari Punjabis, in recent decades they have chosen to define themselves increasingly as Kashmiris. Mirpuris have migrated to the United Kingdom (U.K.) in large numbers and constitute the overwhelming “Kashmiri presence” in that country.
The Mirpuri Jats have gained in influence in Azad Kashmir in recent decades largely through the clout that major remittances from Britain have bought them. Mirpuri economic clout has paid political dividends, helping propel barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry to power as the first Mirpuri leader of Azad Kashmir in 1996. Kashmir expert Alexander Evans writes:
The Mirpuri Jats, looked down upon by Rajputs and Sudhans, gained power in the 1990s largely because of their wealth.… Valley Kashmiris view Mirpuris with much the same condescension as their Punjabi counterparts, but they also consider Mirpuris part of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. They remain Kashmir state subjects – even if not ethnically Kashmiri as Valley Kashmiris would understand it.… [O]n the Pakistani side, the south-east (Sudhan heartland) and south (Mirpur) dominate, while the north (both Muzaffarabad and the Neelum) is less influential.… But Rajputs and Sudhans remain important brokers in local politics – not least as Gujjars tend to follow the lead of local Rajput and Sudhan leaders.
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There are also a number of other small tribes and sub-tribes.''
Very low % of urban population, in Punjab its 40%. Kashmiris gujjars being biggest biraderi while their influence is not as big, I think they are nomadic gujjars who look different, very west asian look. If they were anythink like punjabi gujjars then i could have imagined them being dominant there.
And i also read nationalistic UK mirpuris complaining about Mangla dam and Punjab stealing their water. mirpuri jats need to understand its thanks to Mangla dam they got UK visa. And water is not jageer of anyone, indus for exemple start from China and end in Sindh.
Yet no one call it ''China water.
Anyway i am reading book ''Kashmir untold story'' by Christopher Snedden. Intersting fact Mirpuri jats population in UK is 450,000.