As of 2004, the literacy rate in the Northern Areas was roughly 44%.
www.bzu.edu.pk/jrlanguages/Journal%20Vol%207/Farooq%20Zain.pdf [Page 9]
As I said, it’s comparable to the Kashmir Valley’s literacy rate of roughly 47-48% in the last census.
As of 2004, official literacy in AJK was at 62%.
Pakistan Times | Kashmir: ‘Literacy Rate in Azad Kashmir nearly 62 pc’
Currently, figures of around 65% are being used:
PM Secretariat AJK - Public Sector Development Plans
LOL.
You expect me to believe that literacy rates went up by 10% between 2001-2004. During the comparatively calm & prosperous 1970’s, literacy went up by a grand total of 8%. But somehow, in war-torn J&K at the peak of the militancy, it shot up by 10% in just 3 years. Forget the more affluent states in third-world India…wealthy, rapidly developing nations like Malaysia & Thailand have never seen that kind of growth.
If your government is going to make up numbers, they should at least try to keep them believable.