About Dhār

Dhār is an independent public archive and research initiative dedicated to documenting, preserving, contextualizing, and making accessible the historical and contemporary record of Azad Jammu & Kashmir. It brings together structured archival records, primary documents, visual materials, chronologies, collections, maps, research, and public-history resources, with explicit sourcing, verification, editorial review, and preservation practices.

The archive is not merely a repository of files. Every public entry is intended to function as a structured, citable archival record with metadata, provenance, sources, access information, and a verification state.

Public founding editor: Samar Rahil (pseudonym). Routine archival work may be credited to institutional desks such as the Dhār Editorial Collective, Dhār Research Desk, Dhār Documentation Unit, Dhār Data Desk, and Dhār Visual Archive.