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| 56 cross LoC | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR : As many as 56 passengers crossed sides on the Line of Control (LoC) onboard the Karvan-e-Aman bus despite strained relations between India and Pakistan over the Mumbai terror attacks.
Official sources said 15 residents of this side of the border crossed over to Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK), to meet their relatives separated since 1947 partition.
Similarly, 15 residents of PoK who met their relatives here and witnessed the just concluded seven-phase assembly election, also left for their homes across the LoC today.
They said 26 passengers, including 16 residents of PoK also arrived here this afternoon from PoK for meeting their relatives here. Ten returned here after visiting POK, they added.
This was the first time after central minister’s visit and cricket tour to Pakistan were officially cancelled following terror attacks, the passengers crossed sides on LoC.
The cross-LoC bus service was flagged off by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on April 7,2005. However, truck service between the two parts connecting both sides, was resumed in October this year.
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