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SRINAGAR
The launching of Cross LoC Bus Service via Srinagar-Muzaffarabad route in 2005.
Despite escalating tensions between India and Pakistan, Karvan-e-Aman bus service from Srinagar to Muzafarabad hasn’t been affected as twenty people from this side of divided Kashmir crossed the LoC sans any hindrance on Monday.
Regional Passport Officer Srinagar, Firdous Iqbal who is nodal officer for the service told Kashmir News Service that 20 persons from this side of Kashmir crossed the LoC while six persons from that side entered in Kashmir Valley.
“There hasn’t been any suspension of the Bus Service. It is functioning normally. Only on Eid, the service was suspended,” Iqbal said.
The bus service connects Srinagar – Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital with erstwhile part of the state – Muzaffarabad, the capital of the Pakistan-administered Kashmir across the Line of Control. The bus is of symbolic importance to the efforts of the two nations’ governments to foster peaceful and friendly relations and follows the success of the Delhi–Lahore Bus, which was launched in 1999.
Nodal Officer of Karvan-e-Aman, Firdous Iqbal said that the bus service operates every Monday.
Pertinently, the escalating tensions between India and Pakistan after Uri attack haven’t affected the bus service.
The bus service, started as a Confidence Building Measure (CBM), has so far managed to safeguard itself from the animosity being witnessed on both sides.
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