...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
which would enable any Indian citizen to buy property in the territory, local media reported.A notification by the Indian home ministry said that the new law, Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization (Adaptation of Central Laws) Third Order, 2020, would come into effect immediately.
Before the notification, only "permanent residents" of Indian Indian Kashmire could buy property in the region — a clause that now stands removed.
Since last year, after the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government abrogated Article 370 of the Indian constitution — which repealed occupied Kashmir’s special status — New Delhi has made several changes in laws pertaining to the occupied territory, granting non-residents the right to get education, jobs and buy property in the region.
The decision comes as Kashmiris observe October 27 as ’Black Day’, when Indian forces took over the valley 73 years ago in 1947.
The new laws were condemned by Minister of States and Frontier Regions (Safron) Shehryar Afridi, who said that the Indian government had introduced a "draconian law [...] on Black Day, reminding how occupant forces of India keeps (sic) on occupying all rights of Kashmiris".