K D Maini

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After twelve months of siege of historic Poonch city during 1947-48, it was linked with the rest of the country on 22nd November 1947, when the Rajouri column of Brigadier Yadav Nath Singh met the forces of the Poonch garrison under the command of Brigadier Pritam Singh, ‘The Savior of Poonch’, at Dhannay Pir. Major General Akbar Khan of the Pakistan Army, who had conceived and implemented ‘Operation Gulmerg’ to capture Jammu and Kashmir during 1947, wrote in his book The Raiders in Kashmir that due to the link of Poonch with the rest of India, Pakistan had lost a 250-mile-long belt from Nowshera to Sawjjian near Gulmarg top. This was the biggest defeat of Pakistani forces during the 1947-48 war.

Poonch Vijay Diwas

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