Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 8: As many as 79 civilians including 31 fresh residents of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) today exchanged sides in a weekly Poonch-Rawlakote ‘Peace Bus’ via Chakkan-da-Bagh on the Line of Control in Poonch district.
From this side of the border 45 PoK citizens returned to their places across the border while two fresh Indian citizens also boarded the bus and went to PoK, on official here told.
From other side, 31 fresh residents of PoK reached Poonch while a lone Indian citizen returned back to his native place.
The gate was opened at 1447 hrs and closed at 1508 hrs. In Srinagar, the Karvan-e-Aman bus, operating between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad, remained cancelled today in view of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Srinagar visit.