Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 23: All Parties Sikh Coordination Committee (APSCC) has urged Pakistan and India to take bold step on Jammu and Kashmir so that relations can be further normalized between the two powerful sisters nations.
Jagmohan Singh Raina, APSCC chairman urged both the nations to show greater strength of confidence in each other during the Secretary level talks and expected that they will clear the fact about the possible visit of Sikhs across the border especially in J&K without passport at par with regular border bus movement at Jammu and at Srinagar..
These requests have already been communicated to the Union Home Secretary R K Singh, to keep this on the agenda during his talks with his counterpart Pakistan Home Secretary, K Siddique Akbar.
He added that the talks between India and Pak can only be successful when both the nations forget their past bitterness, and have the meeting with an open mind and a brave heart to strengthen the ties for the prosperity and benefit of the people of both India and Pakistan.
Jagmohan Singh Raina acknowledged that Sikhs across the globe are closer to their Pakistani counterparts than other communities. He added that the bus service started between Indo-Pak via Muzaffarabad- Uri, and Poonch- Rawlakot has proven very fruitful but Sikhs have not been benefitted at all as most of the Sikhs from J&K want to visit their historic Gurudwaras across the border but are denied.
APSCC has demand separate quota for the Sikhs of J&K for all Gurudwara yatras via Wagha border on regular basis and especially on the occasion of Baisakhi, Gurunanak Dev Ji birth day and at other festivals
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