SRINAGAR: No Kashmiri crossed over to other side of the Line of Control (LoC) while 40 residents of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) arrived here today to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha with their relatives, separated in 1947.
However, 13 returnees also crossed sides at Kaman post, the last Indian military post on this side of the LoC in Uri sector.
Official sources said no Kashmiri crossed over to PoK today. This was the fifth time that no Kashmiri crossed over to other side of the LoC in 2013.
On July 29, August 5, September 9 and September 16 no Kashmiri went to PoK.
However, ten PoK residents, who had come here in previous buses, returned to their homes after completing stay in Kashmir.
They said 40 PoK residents, including 12 women and nine children, arrived at Kaman post after crossing the Aman Setu, peace bridge on foot this afternoon.
Three Kashmiris, who had gone to PoK also returned to their homes in the Karvan-e-Aman bus, operating between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad since April 7, 2005 when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh flagged off first bus from here after both the countries agreed to allow families divided in 1947 to travel on permits instead of International Passport.
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