Pashtuns ruled over Kashmir in the past and also liberated 1/3rd of it in 1948 with the help of Pakistan Army. I once met an old major of Pak Army from UP after studying in Aligarh and came to Pakistan and joined the army and was sent to fight in Kashmir.
No they didn't bro and this myth has been put about for years now. The area was liberated by the Azad Kashmir militia, which was formalised as the AKRF and not by the tribal lashkers. The AKRF was around 85,000 strong and made entirely of ex servicemen who had served in the British Indian Army. These men were battle hardened, well disciplined, experienced and were a standing army in waiting.
The Pakhtun Lashkers joined after the liberation of Muzaffarabad to take the fight into what is now Indian administrated Kashmir
. My grandfather and my entire elder generation are vets from that war and the war in 65. They also all fought in the British Indian army.
Read this please.
Kashmir- The untold story
By Christopher Snedden
Importantly. many Poonchi men possessed significant military capabilities that
could challenge Dogra rule. Most had obtained this in as soldiers in the Indian Army in
World War I and World War il, not as members of the maharaja's Hindu/Dogra
dominated military. Many Poonchis, along with neighbouring Milpuris, had
volunteered for Ihe Indian Army, although not for patriotic reasons alone. Small
farms, limited local economlc opportunities and heavy taxes encouraged men in
Mlrpur and Poonch, particularly, to go: elsewhere to obtain work. Apart from
working at various occupations in Punjab, Muslims in these districts had a reputation
for enlisting in tha Indian Army. It was particularly said about Poonch
every male Muslim in the Jaglr was, had been, or when old enough would be a
soldier in the Indian Army..... the Mirpur Poonch area was the great recruiting areas of the Indian Army.
While it is difficult to quantify, both in terms of absoulute numbers and service occpations, large numbers
of Poonchis served as soliders in the Indian Army. The 1941 census gives no figures but a close analysis of
this document reveals that six of Jammu's seven districts provided men to the Indian Army. During World War
1, of the 31,000 men from J & K who served in the Indian Army, Poonch was particularly prominent in supplying
recruits. F
or World War 2, a reasonable figure for Poonchi and Mirpuri servicemen would seem to be at least
50,000. These figures meant that in, in 1947 Muslim men in Pooch and Mirpur with military experience and training
outnumbered the strength of the Maharaja's armed forces. Significantly they were concentrated in one area.
Fighting in World War 2 had given Poonchi and Mirpur Muslims useful skills and broad experiences and additional
reasons to be disgruntled.
Benefiling lrom shorter supply lines, rugged terrain, local knowledge and support,
and hlgh morale, lhe Azad Army built on the Poonch uprising to further oppose the
Maharaja.By 22 seprember 1947, the Azad Army's military structure was
functioning so well that Major General Scott reported that the maharaja's armed
forces were losing control over large parts of Jammu and Kashmir. The maharaja's opponents were
doing well, despite ‚miserably lacking a regular line of commumcarion, and a
regular supply of arms and ammunition
. By mld-to-late october, they controlled
large parts of Poonch and Mlrpur, while much of Muzaffarabad tehsll was being
cleared of non Muslim elements, including, Sikhs, Dogras and R.S.S [Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh] cut-throats'.Thls latter mirrored anti-Musllm
rellgimls vlolence occumng ln Jammu.
The Azad Army's success was significant: when Pukhluun tribesmen entered
Kashmir Province on the 22 October 1947,
most of western Jammu Pmvince had already
been liberated from Ihe Maharaja's forces.
Refer to pages 1922 and 1926
KASHMIR - THE UNTOLD STORY - Christopher Snedden - Google Books
From the Pakistani army website:
Having chosen the path of armed struggle, the people of the State armed themselves with all sorts of weapons ranging from axes, swords, spears and muzzle-loaders to a very limited number of Darra-made single-shot rifles without bayonets. They took to the fighting; initially organizing themselves in platoon/company size groups under local leaders in respective areas of domicile which, with the passage of time, turned into a fairly well knit and organized Force.
Azad Kashmir Regiment
1. Appearence/Look:
Pashtuns:
Kashmiris:
Pashtuns:
Kashmiris:
2. Place of living:
Pashtuns:
Kashmiris:
3. Religion:
Pashtuns:
Kashmiris:
4. Clothes:
Pashtuns:
Kashmiris:
Some similarities but they are truly different people. You'd find such similar things amongst many of Pakistan's ethnic groups e.g. Baluch.