Jason Voorhees
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Azad Kashmir was established in 1947 after the partition of India and is neither a province nor an agency of Pakistan but has a government of its own that is regarded by Pakistan as “independent,” even though it is protected by and economically and administratively linked to Pakistan but Pakistan's government has recently gone to shits after the economic collapse of the entire country due to which the residents of the PoK residents are facing problems. India's defence minister Rajnath Singh recently addressed this in his speech after the residents of the skardu asked the Indian government for help and held protests against the pakistani government. The Indian army has already been mobilized into kashmir but remains to be seen if the Modi government will solve this matter.
I personally don't think there's any point in occupying it back. The terrain and climate of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir including Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan is just mountains with remote villages and a sparse population and barely any motorable roads and unlike historical instances where nations annexed territories for economic gain or strategic advantage, in the case for India. It doesn't have any incentive. Building trade routes through challenging terrain like the Wakhan Corridor would be very difficult with limited economic returns, particularly given India's existing trade ties and alternative routes. Conquering Pok would mean a campaign for months in the brutal terrain fighting back the pakistani army for every inch of land and risking sanctions from the US and China all to gain a little bit of barren land that no one cares about. It's best to leave them as is imo.
I personally don't think there's any point in occupying it back. The terrain and climate of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir including Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan is just mountains with remote villages and a sparse population and barely any motorable roads and unlike historical instances where nations annexed territories for economic gain or strategic advantage, in the case for India. It doesn't have any incentive. Building trade routes through challenging terrain like the Wakhan Corridor would be very difficult with limited economic returns, particularly given India's existing trade ties and alternative routes. Conquering Pok would mean a campaign for months in the brutal terrain fighting back the pakistani army for every inch of land and risking sanctions from the US and China all to gain a little bit of barren land that no one cares about. It's best to leave them as is imo.
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It refers to the Indus river. 
