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| PDP hails agreement on cross LoC trade | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Sept 23: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has hailed the decision of governments of India and Pakistan on allowing cross LoC trade as recognition of urges of the people of Jammu and Kashmir which will go long way in resolving the basic political dispute through a course of dialogue and economic freedom.
In a resolution adopted and passed at a meeting of workers from Budgam district today the PDP expressed strong hope that a formal decision by the Indo-Pak governments on actual initiation of the trade will be made public at the summit meeting of the leaders of the two countries on the sidelines of UN Session in New York next week.
The resolution also called for an easy permit system and hassle free visa regime to facilitate the free flow of trade and cross LoC movement. "The party awaits a historical movement for borders to become irrelevant in the event of negotiated settlement of lurking dispute of the state of Jammu and Kashmir," the resolution added.
Addressing the convention the party senior leaders unanimously observed that the agreement reached at yesterday's Indo-Pak working group on cross LoC trade will help sooth the tempers in Jammu and Kashmir, which had marked an all time high in the aftermath of economic blockade forced by communal elements in Jammu.
The leaders termed the agreement as a forward movement which comes as an acknowledgement of people's sacrifices offered by them against the economic blockade and for the opening of trade routes. The PDP leaders said that there is also an urgency to open other routes like Kargil- Askardu, Jammu-Sialokote and Bandipora-Gilgit roads after the trade commences on Poonch-Rawlakote and Srinagar Muzzaffarabad routes." The people of Jammu and Kashmir on both sides have been craving for an end to isolation through an economic independence and opening of these routes is a natural choice," the party leaders said, adding that once all the routes across the border are opened the state will serve as a nerve center for free economic exchange with a potential to become a free economic zone. |
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