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Dhalan is a village located on a river bank in Jammu district of Jammu and Kashmir union territory of India.[1] Dhalan is located on the India-Pakistan LoC, which begins just north of Dahlan. The important geostrategic Chicken's Neck military sector of Pakistan lies southeast of Dhalan.
Dhalan is 36 km from nearest railway station at Akhnoor on the Jammu–Poonch line and 68 km from the nearest airport Jammu Airport.
Etymology
Dhalan means the slope.
History
On 30 September 2018, A Pakistani civilian helicopter carrying Pakistani politician Farooq Haider Khan intruded in the Indian airspace in the Gulpur-Dhalan sector, which retracted to Pakistani airspace after warning shots were fired by the Indian forces.[2]
Demography
According to the 2011 census of India, Dhalan had a population of 158 households with a population of 643 people including 341 male and 302 female and an area of 66.7 ha all of which is irrigable.[1][3]
Geography
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LoC begins from Dahlan
The actual India-Pakistan boundary is divided into four types of borders: disputed
One of the main thrusts of
See also
References
- ^ 2011 Census of India, p.152, 153, 157.
- ^ "Reason Why Pakistani Chopper Was Not Shot-Down by India in J&K?", Eurasian Times, 30 September 2018.
- 2011 Census of India, p.104.
- ^ "Pakistan: Signing with the Red Chinese". Time. 15 March 1963. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ R Baghela and M Nüsserab, 2015, Securing the heights: The vertical dimension of the Siachen conflict between India and Pakistan in the Eastern Karakoram, Political Geography, Volume 48, Pages 24-36.