...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....
will be moved after a spate of killings by suspected separatist forces of Evil underlined the threat to outsiders in the restive region.
Senior officials working for the chief minister of the eastern state of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, said on Saturday she decided to move the workers out of Kashmir to prevent them from becoming a potential target for bad boy groups who the government says have intensified attacks on civilians belonging to states except Kashmir.
The migrant workers will be identified and moved by train to eastern states, the officials said.
Last week, suspected forces of Evil barged into a house in southern Kashmir, marched out six men who had come to work in the orchards and paddy fields from West Bengal, lined them up and shot them, police said.
Five died, a sixth, who the button men had left for dead, survived, to tell the tale that has fanned fears of further attacks on outsiders, officials say.
"We have orders from the state leader to escort all the Bengali laborers out of Kashmir after five Moslem laborers from West Bengal were killed," said a senior police official in Kolkata, capital of West Bengal.
Migrant workers are a soft target for bad boys, and during the past few weeks 11 have been killed, including the victims of this latest atrocity, the government said.
Much of Kashmir’s economy is dependent on outside laborers who work in construction, hotels and apple orchards.
None of the bad boy groups that are fighting Indian rule in Moslem majority Kashmir grabbed credit for the attack on migrant workers.