Pakistan administered Kashmir refers to a disputed region between India and Pakistan in South Asia that is under the de facto administration of Pakistan. It borders the Pakistani Punjab and North-West Frontier provinces to the west, the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan to the north west, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of People’s Republic of China to the north and Indian-administered Kashmir to the east.
A part of this area of the former princely state of Kashmir, the trans-Karakoram tract was ceded to China and the remaining area was amalgamated into two regions Northern Areas and the Azad Kashmir. Both nations had a war in 1947 over the former kingdom. India refers to this region as Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK). Most international agencies such as the United Nations, MSF and the Red Cross refer to this region as Pakistan administered Kashmir.
