SRINAGAR: For the second consecutive week not even a single Kashmiri crossed over to Pakistan, occupied Kashmir (PoK) while 17 guests from across the Line of Control (LoC) arrived at Kaman post, the last Indian military post on this side of the border.
Official sources said 40 returnees also crossed sides at the post after crossing the Aman Setu, peace bridge on foot this afternoon.
They said 17 PoK residents, including six women and seven children, arrived here to meet their relatives, separated in 1947 due to partition. Sources said seven Kashmiris, who had gone to PoK, returned to their homes after completing stay across the border. They included a woman.
They, however, said not even as single Kashmiri residents crossed over to PoK to meet their relatives.
Though 33 PoK residents, who had come here in previous Karvan-e-Aman buses, returned to their homes after completing stay here, they said, adding they included 11 women and six children.
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 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on April 7, 2005. (AGENCIES)
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