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| LoC travel maintains impressive pace, over 550 crossed sides in two months | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 17: The chill between India and Pakistan is deepening by the day but the diplomatic hostilities between two countries have not quite broken the bonds of affections across both sides of Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.
With a fresh batch of 100 members of divided families changing sides at the Chakan-da-Bagh crossing point in Poonch, more than 550 people have traveled on both sides of the Line of Control in past one and half month.
Since the beginning of this year, 257 persons crossed sides through the cross LoC points, Chakan-Da-Bagh in Poonch. On Tuesday, exactly one hundred civilians crossed sides LoC at Chakan-Da-Bagh point in Poonch district including 17 persons from Pakistan administered Kashmir, meeting their relations first time since the indo-Pak partition.
45 persons left for PaK including 31 first timers from this part of the State while 14 were PaK residents who returned after completing their 28 days stay on this side. Last week, 54 persons cross the sides on the crossing point on LoC in Uri town after landslides led to the suspension a week earlier.
28 persons arrived here from Pak including 8 visitors from Pak while the remaining 22 persons returned back to valley after meeting their relatives in PaK. On February 04, 103 members of divided families crossed sides via weekly Poonch-Rawlakote bus service through Chakan-Da-Bagh point in Poonch district of Jammu.
The travel continued last month as well with as many as 298 persons crossing sides on highly guarded crossing points along the line dividing Kashmir into two parts.
The day when the Chief Minister and his mini cabinet took the reins of the state from Governor NN Vohra after his six-month-old rule, 91 civilians crossed sides from Chakan-Da-Bagh and among them thirteen were Pak citizens who met their relations first time after the partition of 1947.
On January 8, although no fresh guests arrived from PaK, 25 persons crossed sides at Kaman post in Uri through the Karvan-e-Aman bus service that was started between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad on April 7, 2005 and was inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
In the second episode of the Poonch-Rawalakote weekly bus service during the month, on January 12, one hundred persons including the 16 Pakistani Kashmir quests exchanged sides to meet the relatives on either side of the boundaries.
Three days later, as many as 29 passengers, including six guests from PaK crossed side at Kaman Post while 5 of family including a woman and her four children crossed over to PoK forward area of Kirni, Shahpur in Poonch district.
Sources said that one Asiya Bi wife of Muhammad Rashid, a resident of Kirni, Shahpur along with her two sons Abdul Wahid and Haroon Rashid and two daughters Zahida Parveen and Shahida Parveen took an unfenced route from Kirni on the LoC to cross over to PaK, where some of her relatives were already staying. The crossover, according to the officials was an unauthorized affair.
Exactly seven days later, 22 passengers crossed sides through Kaman post, peace-bridge, 4 visitor, 2 males and as many as females arrived from Muzaffarabad.
On January 26, 96 civilians from two parts of divided State including a three member Sikh family from Purani Poonch exchanged sides at cross-LoC Poonch-Rawlakote weekly bus service.
The 60 member who reached Poonch on that day, included 27 fresh visitors while the remaining 33 were returnees of this side.
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