Due to those reasons, scholar Christopher Snedden stated that the people of Mirpur area had a strong desire to join Pakistan during the partition.

[14] Sociolinguists have regarded it as one of the three major dialects of the Pahari-Pothwari language complex,[15] which is intermediate between Lahnda and Punjabi.

[16] Mirpur Pahari is mutually intelligible with the other two major dialects – Pothwari of the Potohar Plateau in the Punjab Province and the Pahari spoken to the north in Azad Kashmir and around Murree – and shares with them between 77% and 84% of its basic vocabulary,[17] although the difference with the northernmost varieties (in Muzaffarabad) is sufficient to impede understanding.

[18] Mirpuri speakers have a strong sense of Kashmiri identity that takes precedence over linguistic identification with closely related groups outside of Azad Kashmir, such as the Punjabis of the Pothohar.

[12] The local dialect is closely related to the Gujari varieties spoken in the rest of Azad Kashmir and in the Hazara region.