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| Only 7 guests from PoK on LoC bus | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR : The number of cross-border travellers in the Karvan-e-Aman bus remained low as only seven guests arrived here from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) while nine from here crossed to other side of the Line of Control (LoC).
Official sources told that seven guests, including two women, from PoK, arrived here in the Aman bus, operating between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad since April 7, 2005.
They said six residents of the Kashmir Valley, who had crossed over to PoK, also returned to their homes in the bus after meeting their relatives there. They included two women and a child, who travelled to other side recently to meet their relatives separated since 1947 partition.
As many as nine residents of this side, including two women also crossed over to PoK to meet their relatives there, they said, adding 7 PoK residents, including a women and a child also returned to their homes after meeting their relatives here.
The fortnight bus service was started by India and Pakistan to enable the divided families, living on both sides of LoC, to meet each other in 2005. However, it was made weekly since last year when trade ties between the two divided parts of Jammu and Kashmir were also resumed after 1947.
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