Azad Kashmir is a Pakistani-controlled area that is officially self-governing. It shares borders with the Pakistani provinces of Punjab, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Since its independence from India, it has had full access to all basic rights under Pakistan’s administration. It is illegal for anybody from Pakistan to purchase land or other real estate in Azad Kashmir without having a state subject certificate or other official documents proving that they have lived there permanently. Pakistan preserves the special status of Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. Pakistan never permits other Pakistanis from any province to purchase even one acre of land in Azad Kasmir. We are fully adhering to our international policy commitments. According to the declaration of the Simla Agreement, signed on July 2, 1972, by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, both India and Pakistan are obligated not to change the status of any pending...
Shujaat Hussain Abbasi, a former student of the Mass Communication Department at Sindh University Jamshoro has developed this news blog.