When besieged Poonch City was linked with the country
Published on: Nov. 22, 2025, 4:59 a.m. | Source: Daily Excelsior
K D Maini kdmainipoonch@gmail.com 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, […]
