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| Only seven through cross-LoC bus | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR: Only two Kashmiris travelled to Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) while five fresh guests arrived here from across the Line of Control (LoC) in the Karvan-e-Aman bus today.
Official sources said that two residents of the Kashmir valley, including a woman, travelled to POK for the first time to meet their relatives across the border.
Three residents of POK, who had arrived here in previous buses also left for their homes after meeting their relatives here.
As many as five residents of POK, including two women, also arrived here after crossing on foot the Aman Setu at Kaman post, the last Indian military post near the LoC.
They arrived here for the first time to meet their relatives here, sources said. There was no guest in the last bus from POK.
They said 12 residents of this side, who had crossed over to other side also returned home today in the bus. They included two women and three children.
The weekly service was introduced on April 7 in 2005 when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh flagged off the bus to enable families separated in 1947 to meet each other. However, in 2008 the bus was converted into a weekly service and thousands of members of the seperated families benefited from it.
But, only those having relatives on either side of the LoC could avail of this facility.
Political parties and social organisations are now demanding that anyone, living on either sides of the LoC be allowed to use the bus service.
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