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Kupwara
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BACKGROUND
District Kupwara was originally part of
erstwhile undivided district Baramulla. District Kupwara was carved out of
district Baramulla in July 1979. Kupwara town was chosen as district
headquarter. The district consists of three tehsils namely, Kupwara,
Handwara and Karnah.
BOUNDARIES
This lovely district is located in the extreme
north-west of Kashmir valley. Its northern and western borders form the line of control between India and Pakistan and eastern and southern borders touch Sopore,
Bandipore and Baramulla Tehsils. Famous river Kishan
Ganga separates Pakistan occupied Kashmir and Jammu and Kashmir in Machil, Keran and Teetwal areas.
People of this district
have a painful experience of partition of India
and unnatural division of the state . There are numerous
examples whereby the LOC separates brothers from
sisters, sons from mothers, wives from
husbands and kiths and kin's. The
trauma of the separation is still very painful.
LOCATION
The district is
located between 34.17 to 34.21 North
Latitude and 73.10 to 73.16 East Longitude.
