Neelum is one of the maximum extremely good valleys of Azaad Kashmir, and it has more than one brook, freshwater streams, woods, wealthy inexperienced mountains, and a move. here, you see cascades tumbling down the mountains; their easy white waters gushing over the roads and sprinkling towards the stones, earlier than current collectively with the messy waters of move Neelum. 



 it has been formally isolated into sub-zones: Athmuqam and Sharda. From Muzaffarabad, a tarred street gently drives you to Sharda, whence you want to move on a harsh and thrilling jeep song, that can take you to the farthest city of the location, Tau Butt. 

previous package, this quarter changed into referred to as Dawah. The Azaad Kashmir authorities, in 1956, the ninth year of its norm, held a branch assembly to rechristen the stream Kishanganga as the circulation Neelum, and the Drawah district as Neelum Valley. 

the new names had been proposed to the organization via a battle holy character, Syed Mohammad Amin. The authority supported them, and thusly, Drawah of the days long past by using is as of now Neelum Valley of Azaad Kashmir. 

precisely when the far off towns organized at the ft of the Himalayas lured me, I bade farewell to my paintings and my metropolis before getting collectively for Kashmir, wherein rich green mountains were set up to take me in. 



once we regarded in the Jhelum place, I stopped at the platform to appearance down into the stream Jhelum. The messy water gushed down step by step. I wanted to satisfy a comparable movement upstream, where it is going into Pakistan from Azaad Kashmir (and modifications its call from Neelum to Jhelum). The movement had all of the earmarks of being too torpid in the fields of Punjab, but I understood that up in the mountains, it's far exasperated and boisterous, with green waters bending through limited mountain passes. 

Metropolitan humans group, town,s, and cities handed by in a regular movement; Rawalpindi turned into gone; by using then from Murree, the automobile shot towards Muzaffarabad. the street from Kohala to Muzaffarabad was slender yet tree-covered; the vehicle went underneath the shadows of the timber. The incorporating mountains had worn the as of past due grow to be brilliant hid grass. 

there has been greenery anywhere, emphasized with pomegranate bushes that orchestrated the street, and fortuitously held out their red petals. in opposition to their inexperienced basis, the crimson petals seemed, by way of all debts, to be basically fascinating. 

The pomegranate petals continued moving along the street till we confirmed up at Muzaffarabad – a thickly populated city, with homes from an authentic perspective sitting on the highest factors of numerous houses. 



resulting in getting over the movement Neelum Augmentation, I anticipated to leave the car and enlist a jeep, which changed into to take me to my target, the Neelum Valley. 

As I was being driven alongside the move Neelum, I was intrigued to understand how upbeat this flow streamed, filling in as a hallmark part amongst Pakistan and India, careless of their hostility. 

Pakistan is building the Neelum-Jhelum hydropower dam on the movement Neelum. It turned into mid-yr, but the undertaking genuinely radiated an impact of being frozen. The jeep entered Athmuqam and went via its jam-filled streets earlier than emerging on the contrary aspect that confronted Kieran. on the contrary final touch of the growth that was given over the flow Neelum, was Indian-held Kashmir. 

Coming the line of manage, I felt that regardless of the way that the 2 Kashmirs had been remoted by means of a facet, they held various things in like manner: on the special facets of this hole, jeeps and transports play comparable track; culture and cooking is equal; the overall populace on the specific aspects has a gap with a comparative character, draws water from a comparable stream, and lives beneath comparative fogs; what makes a difference is seen interestingly on the posts that elevate the general public flags – the pennants are unheard of, so are the companies and probably the hearts 



We regarded inside the metropolis of Dowarian. starting right here on away prompts the Ratti Gali Lake. Nature probable labored lengthy and hard to make Ratti Gali, first overlaying it with green velvet grass, and sometime later speak it with yellow, blue, and orange sun shades. 

The blue waters and fine radiance of this lake coast voyagers with the sort of draw that they might war mountains, streams, and the challenges of journeying to appear at this spot. A sight of Ratti Gali Lake justifies all of the trouble. 



The jeep continued moving alongside. At a touch division from the pass-to Ratti Gali, the road loosens up and mission up the mountain to fulfill the town of upper Neelum. perhaps, the complete valley takes its call from this metropolis. 

The jeep seemed in Sharda and stopped at its fundamental enterprise place. My eyes meandered to several asses staying on the rooftops of houses and shops and chomping wild grass that had bounced up there. Seeing asses on rooftops especially struck me as extraordinarily entertaining. 



In Sharda, homes depend on the grand mountain grades with the give up the purpose that their housetops are typically caught into the mountain. It licenses animals to viably stroll onto the roofs. The asses had been perhaps pulled in by way of the candy smell of the grass here. 



Sharda is one of the two sub-department of the Neelum Valley. In antique events, it changed into a seat of information and information. in case you get over the stream interface, you'll seem on the leftovers of a site that seems like a fortress anyway which surely was a status quo. It falls somewhere near a city and a town, as the simple necessities of life, are available in abundance in the nearby stores. in any case, ensuing in leaving Sharda, it is simply towns. the road turns brutal, too. circulation Neelum rounds around here. 

a couple of records professionals acknowledge that Sharda becomes the call of a Hindu asylum. The research is requiring on whether Sharda was a safe-haven or a status quo. Revelations with the aid of one of the Azaad Kashmir's lofty professionals Dr. Ahmed Deen Sabir recommend that Sharda and Saraswati are two existence partners to Brahma, the Hindu master of creation (in Hindu legends, they may be the goddesses of information and cleverness). in the mature age, safe-havens would fill in as spots of adoration and exam simply as spotlights on steerage. Al-Beruni depicts the geology and situations of this asylum,



 it's far a well-known spot of pics organized far off of more than one days closer to Kohistan-e-Balour from Srinagar." 

in the twenty-first century, the city of Sharda, dismissing the movement Neelum, is alluded to in addition as a place to get-away. The circulate Neelum streams downhill, cautiously accomplishing its ft. 

The tarred road arrived at a resolution, and the ugly earth song commenced. multiple streams met our path. The jeep might chill out to move via the water and a while later continue with its harsh journey. 



Sitting interior, I felt like I used to be riding on camel-lower back. The daylight became hustling a tad to break out from the mountain. The seat pine timber constructed up their shadows long. proper, when the jeep regarded at Kail, an earth-scented breeze rushed to welcome me; it postponed all completed. 

resulting in investigating the motion business office, I chose to take a seat within the shade of my area to watch the buzzing approximately the valley as the dusk. aside, at the rooftop two children were gambling tennis with an inexperienced plastic ball. On every other roof, sincerely close to them, 4 youngsters were gambling every other recreation, possibly Stapoo or an assortment of it. 

a long way beneath in the valley, on a bent that has been upheld with the aid of wooden logs, more than one ladies stomp on a moist soil trail, wearing on their heads pitchers made from bronze and copper and stacked up with water. toward the beginning finishing touch of the way streamed a really perfect rivulet; a fallen tree trunk molding a bend over it. on the banks of the river and over the tree trunk sat a few particular girls doing clothing. the ones who passed on the water on their heads had crammed the pitchers from this identical flow, strolling domestic in pairs. 

close to this lavoir turned into a discipline encased with timber sheets. two little youths were playing within the discipline, they could turn for what it's really worth, and before lengthy, tumbledown within the unsown wrinkles, their heads turning. They would keep laughing for multiple moments. I ought to hear the sound in their snickers, joined with the giggling of the tennis-gambling children. The youngsters would then outfit again, turn for what it's really worth, and breakdown; the sport continued for multiple rounds. 



just underneath my shade, in a discipline, a superb quantity of dandelions had blossomed. A hearty shaded cat pawed thru them, sniffing. The pillars from the placing solar had fired up the rims of the dandelions. aside, smoke rose from thousands of homes. The housetop slants have been painted crimson, white, and orange. To a wonderful quantity, a jeep or a cruiser might mixture the unpleasant jeep song, which regardless lay nonetheless and calms. 

a touch later, the ultimate pillars from the declining solar started out to come to be flushed the puffed embodiments of the two cloak of fog that had willfully stayed in the sky. as the crimson concealing expected authority over the sky, the kickback observable all around grew further. before the red sky turned dim, the lavoir has been cleansed of its inhabitants, the youngsters had finished their video games, and the gritty shaded cat unnecessarily had gotten lower back. 



by and by way of, the stacks were speaking more smoke; dinner turned into being cooked. The atmosphere got colder and fogginess immersed the whole lot. several


lighting starts to shimmer in the valley. I, who had constructed up all.