SRINAGAR : Weekly Karvan-e-Aman bus, operating between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan- occupied Kashmir (PoK) remained suspended for the second week today.
Official sources told reporters that the service run has been suspend again today. This was the second week the bus could not be operated because of drug row.
The bus service was suspended on January 20 when a PoK bus driver was arrested after 114 packets of brown sugar were recovered from his vehicle at Salamabad in Uri trade centre.
Later, Pakistan closed the gate and refused to take back their drivers who remained stranded in Uri.
The PoK authorities also did not allow Kashmiri drivers to leave who had gone there.
Pakistan has been demanding release of the arrested driver before allowing Kashmiri drivers to leave. The Pakistani authorities are also demanding seized truck and brown sugar to prosecute the driver in the PoK.
During 2014, only two PoK citizens arrived here while 14 from Kashmir crossed over to the other side.
The bus service was started after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh flagged off the first bus on April 7, 2005 despite opposition by militant organisations. Later, in 2008 trade service was also resumed.
(AGENCIES)
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