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Poonch district is popularly known as mini Kashmir is one of the remote districts of Jammu and Kashmir. E 'enclosed by the existing line of control (ALC) ALC sides.The three is about 103 km. by Tarkundi in Balakot in Sawjian in Block Mandi. Punch has seen many historical events and has been ruled by foreigners and locals at different times to become a part of the independent traveler India.In sixth century AD Chinese Tsang Huien Poonch crossing. He wrote that Punch was famous for graphics, fine tea (Musloom) and good horses. Around 850 AD, Punch became a sovereign state, when Mr. Nar, a horse trader pleaded Raja of Poonch. In 1596 AD Mughal king Jehangir called Siraj-ud-din of the village Kahuta as Raja of Poonch. In 1798 AD, a leader of the Gujjar blood-Rooh Ullah became the ruler of this area.

From 1819 AD to 1850 AD Poonch being a part of the Khalsa Darbar, Lahore. In 1850 AD Raja Moti Singh Dogra Dogra Raj whose founding of Punch. On the death of Raja Jagat Dev Singh in 1940, Sardar Abdul Qayoom Khan became director of Punch under the orders of the Government of Kashmir. In 1947 two tehsils and half of the Punch principality was under illegal occupation of Pakistan, while the rest has become a component of Poonch Rajouri district. In 1967, for administrative convenience the district was divided into two parts, namely the district of Rajouri and Poonch district.

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