[4] Heavy commodifications taxation under the Sikh rule caused many Kashmiri peasants to migrate to the plains of Punjab.

[14] Writing for the Kashmir Observer, journalist Ali Malik estimates that, due to the migrations over the centuries, around half of the ethnic Kashmiri population had been living in Punjab before the 1947 partition, mostly in cities such as Lahore, Sialkot, Rawalpindi and Amritsar, in Amritsar making up to one sixth of the city's total population but virtually all moving into Pakistan following the partition.

[17] Scholar Chitralekha Zutshi states that Kashmiri Muslims settled in the Punjab retained emotional and familial links to Kashmir and felt obliged to struggle for the freedom of their brethren in the Valley.

[18] Common krams (surnames) found amongst the Kashmiri Muslims who migrated from the Valley[11] to the Punjab include Butt,[19][20][21] Dar,[19] Lone, Wain (Wani), Mir, Rathore.

[26] An exclusive research conducted by the "Jang Group and Geo Television Network" showed that the Kashmiri community had been involved in spearheading the power politics of Lahore district since 1947.

One of the most highly educated and prominent Punjabi-Kashmiri was Muhammad Iqbal, whose poetry displayed a keen sense of belonging to Punjab and Kashmir Valley.