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| PC Pak Search Sudhan Operation | |||||
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| Part of the Kashmir conflict and 1955 Poonch uprising | |||||
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 Sudhan[1] |
 Azad Kashmir (Pakistani government loyalists) Punjab Constabulary Azad Kashmir Police Pakistan Army | ||||
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| Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan[2] |
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Several arrested Several homes burned down |
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PC Pak Search Sudhan Operation was a Pakistani military operation of the 1955 Poonch uprising. The first major operation of the Pakistan Army inside Pakistan, it was conducted against Sudhan tribal insurgents in the Sudhan-majority Sudhanoti, Poonch, Bagh, and Kotli DistrictsofAzad Kashmir.[6]
The basis of operation like PC was the basic reasons like distrust between the President of Azad Kashmir Sardar Ibrahim Khan and the Government of Pakistan because after the ceasefire agreement of 1 January 1949 differences started to arise between the Government of Pakistan and the President of Azad Kashmir Sardar Ibrahim Khan. Ibrahim Khan had refused to sign a ceasefire agreement with the government of Pakistan. After that, due to the 1949 Karachi Agreement, further differences began to emerge between Sardar Ibrahim and the government of Pakistan, due to which the government of Pakistan suspended Sardar Ibrahim from the presidency of Azad Kashmir on 21 May 1950.[7]
Sardar Ibrahim Khan started the democracy movement in Azad Kashmir on this undemocratic move of the Pakistan government, which eventually turned into an armed rebellion, after which the Azad Kashmir government was paralyzed. After eliminating all police posts from Azad Kashmir and occupying 80% of the territory of Azad Kashmir, Sardar Ibrahim Khan declared his rebel government at the location of Poonch District Rawalkot Azad Kashmir. [8]
The government of Pakistan had to conduct a military operation on this rebellion of the Sudhan in Azad Kashmir, which was the first domestic operation in the history of the Pakistan Army. Which federal government started Pak search operation under the leadership of Brigadier Raza Khan. The main objective of this operation was to suppress violence, terrorism and insurgency and establish law and order as the Sudhan tribes of Ibrahim Khan, the founder of the armed rebellion in Azad Kashmir, occupied 80% of Azad Kashmir and were continuing to advance on other areas of Azad Kashmir, so the government of Pakistan launched the PC Pak Sudhan operation of the Pakistan Army under the leadership of Brigadier Raza Khan.[9]
Negotiations were held between Sardar Ibrahim and the Government of Pakistan on 4 April 1952, after which ten Saduzai groups under the command of Sardar Ibrahim Khan surrendered to the Government of Pakistan at the location of Poonch Rawalkot district, after which District Bagh and District Sidhnuti Saduzai Sardars refused Sardar Ibrahim Khan's decision to negotiate, after which the Sardars of Sidhnuti and Bagh were engaged in anti-Pakistani operations in Bagh, Sidhnuti, and Kotli districts, but when the Pakistani forces occupied all the plains of Bagh and Sidhnuti districts. After occupying the areas, Sardar Abdul Aziz Khan, who had established his rebel government in Bagh district, negotiated with the government of Pakistan on January 2, 1955, and surrendered after negotiations with the Pakistan government. The Sadhuzai chieftains of the hilly areas of its Sidhnuti district neither surrendered nor agreed to any negotiations until the Baral Treaty of 1956.[10]
The last rebel leader of the 1950s, Ghazi Sher Dil Khan, along with 2,000 Saduzai rebels, between the government of Pakistan and the independent government of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, the then president of Azad Kashmir, Sardar Muhammad Abdul Qayyum Khan, and the minister of Kashmir affairs, Mushtaq Ahmad Gormani, and other government officials. On 20 September 1956, in the Baral valley, after which the rebels of Sadhnuti surrendered, this agreement was made possible by the personal efforts of the President of Azad Kashmir, Sardar Muhammad Abdul Qayyum Khan. And the friendly relations were from the time of Jihad-Kashmir in 1947, which he has also mentioned in his book Sue Kashmir, although the government of Pakistan and Azad Kashmir government did not write any book on the PC-Pak Search Sadhana operation or any article in any newspapers or There is a strict ban on programming with absolute titles in any TV channel program [11][12] [13][14]
Sudhans' uprising also was embarrassing. Rebels captured some 500 Pakistani soldiers and spoilt pretensions that Azad Kashmir was a stable, unified region
