Karvan-e-Aman bus leaves for PoK
Srinagar, July 23 (UNI) The Karvan-e-Aman bus, operating between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK), left here on Monday to cross over to other side of the Line of Control (LoC), official sources said.
The weekly bus left Bemina, Srinagar, this morning for Kaman post, the last military post on this side of the LoC, at Uri, sources told UNI. They said 27 passengers—25 returnees of PoK and two Kashmiris—are travelling in the bus. However, the exact number of passengers travelling to PoK will be known in the afternoon.
They said the bus has since reached Trade Facilitation Centre (TFC) at Uri, where more passengers will board it before proceeding towards the Kaman post.
They said passengers coming from PoK will be known in the afternoon.
The number of passengers from PoK increases during summer when weather is pleasant in Kashmir and goes down in winter. But the number of travellers from here goes down during this summer and later increases.
The bus has helped thousands of families, divided due to partition in 1947, to meet each other since the Cross-LoC facility was introduced on April 7,2005 when India and Pakistan agreed to allow state subject on both sides of the border travel on “ Travel Permits” instead of International Passport.