Ottoman-style mosque allures visitors in Azad Kashmir capital

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan-administered Kashmir 

Surrounded by lush green mountains, the city of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, looks like a mini-Turkish metropolis Istanbul.  

Dotted by pencil minarets and flat domes, the imprints of Turkish liberal aid that helped to rebuild the city, post-2005 devastated earthquake, is quite visible.

Off late, an Ottoman-style mosque has emerged, one of the startling features of the landscape of this tiny city, located at the confluence of the Jhelum and Neelam rivers and housing a population of 150,000.

Just 64 kilometers (40 miles) away from the Line of Control (LoC) that divides Jammu and

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