Neelum District, is the northern most district of Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. Taking up the larger part of the Neelum Valley, the district has a population of 191,000. The Neelum river was known before Partition as Kishan Ganga and was subsequently renamed after the village of Neelum, It flows down from the Gurez valley in Indian Jammu and kashmir and roughly follows first a western and then a south-western course until it joins the Jehlum River at Muzafrabbad.