Cross LoC bus plies as usual
Tribune News Service

Rajouri, December 1
Despite increased tension between India and Pakistan following the Mumbai terror attack, the LoC Poonch-Rawlakote weekly bus reportedly carrying more than 100 visitors from either sides crossed over to PoK and into Poonch today.

However, unlike the previous bus service the number of visitors from Pakistan this time around was quite less.

Sources in the district administration divulged that this morning

70 visitors, 35 Indians and equal number of Pakistani visitors on their way back, travelled from Poonch to Rawlakote through the LoC point at Chakan-da-Bagh. They added that 14 visitors from PoK also crossed over into India in the evening hours. But the number of Indians, who came back from PoK, was not known, they added.

“It is good that despite terror attack in Mumbai, bus service didn’t stop and shouldn’t stop. It is no ordinary bus service since it unites the divided families,” said Muhammad Ashraf from Rajouri while boarding the bus from Poonch towards Rawlakote. He added that he was going to meet his cousin in PoK and would see him first time after their families were divided in 1965.