Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR/JAMMU, Oct 14: No Kashmiri crossed over to other side of the Line of Control (LoC) via Uri while 57 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 via Kaman post in Uri.
However, 10 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.
Twenty (20) visitors arrived here from PoK via Chakkan-da-Bgah in Poonch. They included three Indian returnees and 17 new visitors arriving here from PoK to celebrate Eid with their relatives on this side of the LoC.
A total 28 persons cross over to PoK today from this cross LoC point. 24 of them were the PoK residents returning after brief stay with their relatives here while four new visitors from J&K to Pak held Kashmir.
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