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| LoC: Trucks after 61 years | | | Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is likely to show the green signals to trucks as they leave on historical journey from Srinagar to Muzaffarabad on October 21. The trade between Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road, popularly known as Jhelum Valley road is being revised after 61 years. Heralding a new era of cooperation and relations between two parts of Jammu and Kashmir, the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zadari on September 25 formally announced agreement on trade across Line of Control through Srinagar-Muzaffarabad and Poonch-Rawalakote routes.
An announcement to this effect was made in New York where Singh and Zardari had pathbreaking meeting on the sidelines of United Nations General Assembly session.
As per agreement trucks will roll across the Line of Control on October 21. The Cross-LoC trade announcement has been welcomed by almost all Kashmir based separatist and mainstream parties except Syed Ali Shah Geelani who described this as “non issue”.
Reaction in Jammu was grim where the BJP described the trade agreement as breach of national integrity and sovereignty. Many other parties said it is like succumbing to the secessionists. Congress, however, hailed the decision. |
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