India-Pakistan Border
The boundary starts from Kashmir, passing through Punjab, western Rajasthan and extends up to Kutch region of Gujarat.
The length of boundary which events extends from Punjab to Gujarat via Rajasthan being 3,323 km happens to be the second longest border after that of India -Bangladesh.
Sutlej & Ravi from natural boundary between India & Pakistan. Ravi river acts as a boundary line in Amritsar district of Punjab while Sutlej River creates boundary line between India and Pakistan, towards South of Firozpur district.
Radcliffe Line
After partying, on 17th August, 1947 the boundary demarcated between India and Pakistan is known as Radcliffe Line. This line was determined by the Border Commission.
As Cyrillic Radcliffe was the President of the Commission, the boundary line between India & Pakistan is named after him.
Today, it's western part still serves as the Indo-Pakistan border and the eastern part serves as the Indo-Bangladesh border.
The commission had to separate the Punjab and Bengal province on the basis of Hindu and Muslim population.
Line of Control (LoC)
The term Line of Control (LOC( refers to the military control line between India and Pakistan occupied parts of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir.
The line does not constitute a legally recognized international boundary, but remains the de-facto border, originally being Cease-Fire Line.
It was re-designated as LoC following the Shimla agreement on 3rd July, 1972.
Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK)
With the help of local tribal people, Pakistan attacked Kashmir in 1947 and acquired a large area. The occupied land came to be known as POK.
This part of land still remains under the acquisition of Pakistan. Muzaffarabad is the capital of PoK.
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