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Jam·mu

 (jŭm′o͞o)
A city of northern India near the Pakistani border south of Srinagar. Formerly the seat of a Rajput dynasty, it was later captured by the Sikhs. It is now the winter capital of the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Jammu

(ˈdʒʌmuː)
n
(Placename) a city in N India, winter capital of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Pop: 378 431 (2001)
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Jam•mu

(ˈdʒʌm u)

n.
the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir, in the SW part, in N India. 206,135.
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Summary: Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Aug 26 (ANI): Following restrictions imposed by the government in wake of scrapping Article 370, Jammu and Kashmir is returning to normalcy as students here have begun attending schools in large numbers.
MIRPUR -- Lambasting India for throwing the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir into very dangerous situation since her sinister action of revoking special status of the occupied part of the disputed Himalayan state, the AJK-based nationalist political parties have announced forming a joint forum with the name of People's National Alliance to step up the struggle for achievement of the birth right to self-determination.
MIRPUR (AJK) -- Lambasting India for revoking special status of the Indian occupied part of the internationally acknowledged disputed Himalayan state, the AJK based nationalist political parties have announced to form their joint forum with the name of Peoples National Alliance to step up the struggle for achievement of the birth right of self determination besides to apprise external world of the increased human rights abuses in Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir.
MIRPUR (AJK) -- Describing the Indian nefarious forced move of scraping the special status of the disputed Jammu and Kashmir State as extremely harmful to the peace in the world in general and south Asia in particular.
An emergency meeting of OIC Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir was held on 6th August 2019 in the wake of illegal actions by India to alter the internationally recognized disputed status of Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOK).
AS India celebrates 26 January every year as its Republic Day, since India's Constitution came into effect on 26 January 1950, the Kashmiris in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IoK), Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and in the world over, observe the 26 January as the blackest day, to protest, India's occupation of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir by violating the partition formula, through an illegal, manipulated and controversial accession instrument, which India had got signed in October 1947, by Maharaja Hari Singh, the then ruler of the State, under duress.
ISLAMABAD:Hindu extremist forces are conspiring to drive the Muslim minority out of Jammu region by describing them as a 'threat' to Hindu dominated in the region.
ISLAMABAD -- Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi urged the international community to move beyond rhetoric and take meaningful steps in putting an immediate end to the gross and systematic human rights abuses in the Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IoK).
According to Kashmir Media Service, speaking during a public meeting in R S Pura in Jammu, Bhagat said, "Kashmiris are united on Article 35-A and oppose its abrogation.
Meanwhile, People's Political Party (PPP) Chairman, Engineer Hilal Ahmed War, in a statement said November 6, 1947 is a dark day in the history of Jammu and Kashmir.
Mirpur -- Jammu Martyrs Day will be observed at both side of Line of control and rest of the world on November 6 Tuesday to commemorate the sacrifices of lives given by the Muslim residents of Jammu city this day in 1947.

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