India newly declared laws state that they will allow non-residents to buy land in occupied Kashmir.
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi government (India) has enacted controversial laws for Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK); and Ladakh territories which allow any Indian citizen;
However India govt.’s move of letting non-residents buy land in disputed region seems like a move against demography of the Muslim-majority valley.
Whereas last year on August 5;
The government in New Delhi revoked the semi-autonomous status of the occupied region; it also scrapped the local special citizenship law; guaranteed under Article 35 (A) of the Indian constitution.
The law was barring outsiders including Indian nationals from settling and claiming government jobs, to maintain the demographic balance.
In its order, the Indian home ministry said;
The name of new laws is; the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization (Adaptation of Central Laws) Third Order, 2020.
It added that it will come into effect immediately.
However according to this the repealed states are twelve.
The other twenty-six states to adapt changes and substitutions.
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The laws have been notified as people of Pakistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) observe black day on Tuesday against the occupation of the valley by Indian forces since October 27, 1947.
Whereas 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”.
“Now India and; foreigners are also allowed to purchase land in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir,” he tweeted.
Kashmiri leader Omar Abdullah blasted the development as “unacceptable”, saying occupied Kashmir was “now up for sale and the poorer small land holding owners will suffer”.