Firdous Iqbal, Regional Passport Officer (RPO) Kashmir, told dna that 18 passengers crossed sides in the Karawan-e-Aman bus on Monday. "Ten passengers came from Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. Eight passengers including three freshers and five returnees left for Muzafarabad in the bus from this side," he said.
In spite of war cry, the cross LoC peace bus, `Karawan-e-Aman', rolled on the Srinagar Muzaffarabad highway, through the garrison town of Uri where Jasih-e-Mohommad fidayeens unleashed mayhem on Sunday after storming into 12 brigade headquarters killing 18 soldiers and injuring others.
Firdous Iqbal, Regional Passport Officer (RPO) Kashmir, told dna that 18 passengers crossed sides in the Karawan-e-Aman bus on Monday. "Ten passengers came from Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. Eight passengers including three freshers and five returnees left for Muzafarabad in the bus from this side," he said.
"Karawan-e-Aman bus left for Muzaffarabad early Monday morning and crossed the garrison town for Kaman Post, the last point of India on the Line of Control of Uri sector of North Kashmir's Baramulla district", said an official.
Started in April 2005, the Karawan-e-Aman bus has one the biggest confidence-building measures that enabled reuniting the divided families living on both sides of the Line of Control.
There are two cross-LoC routes on which the peace bus rolls in Jammu and Kashmir every week. Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road was opened in April 2005 which was followed by opening of Poonch-Rawlakote road in Jammu region a year later. Three years later the cross LoC trade started in October 2008 when Jammu and Kashmir was up in arms over Amarnath land row.
Owned by State Road Transport Corporation (SRTC), the bus was escorted by police and civilian officers who were apprehensive of the movement given the terror attack on the brigade headquarters on Sunday.
Cross LoC trade from Srinagar Muzaffarabad road has been suspended since the unrest began in the valley. However authorities are trying hard to resume the cross LoC trade which was once termed as mother of all the confidence building measures between India and Pakistan
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