SRINAGAR : No one from Kashmir crossed over to the other side of the Line of Control (LoC) while 60 residents of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) arrived here in the Karvan-e-Aman bus, operating between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad.
Meanwhile, 54 returnees also crossed sides at Kaman post, the last Indian military post on this side of the LoC in Uri sector.
Official sources here today said 60 PoK residents, including 18 women and 7 children arrived yesterday at Kaman post after crossing Aman Setu, peace bridge, on foot to meet their relatives, separated in 1947 due to partition. They said two Kashmiri, including a woman, who had gone to PoK returned to Srinagar after completing stay there. However, no one from Kashmir crossed to the other side of the LoC.
Meanwhile, as many as 52 PoK residents, including 18 women and 7 children, who had come to Srinagar in previous bus also returned to their homes, they added. The bus service has helped thousands of families, separated due to partition to meet each other after India and Pakistan agreed to allow travel of divided families, on Permits instead of International passports, to meet each other since the first bus was flagged off by the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on April 7, 2005. (AGENCIES)
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