SRINAGAR, Apr 15:
Nine new guests from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) arrived here this afternoon while only three residents of Kashmir crossed over to other side of the Line of Control (LoC) to meet their relatives separated in 1947.
As many as 11 PoK and Kashmiri residents also crossed side at Kaman post, the last Indian military post on this side of the LoC in Uri sector.
Official sources said nine PoK guests, including three women, arrived at Kaman post after crossing the Aman Setu, peace bridge, on foot this afternoon.
They said seven Kashmiris, who had gone to PoK, returned here after meeting their relatives.
Three Kashmiris crossed over to other side of the LoC, they said adding four PoK residents, who had come here in previous buses, returned to their homes. They included three women.
So far, 51 PoK residents had visited Kashmir while 129 Kashmiris crossed over to other side of the LoC since January this year in the Karvan-e-Aman bus operating between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad from April 7,2005 when Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh flagged off first bus from here. (UNI)
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