Excelsior Correspondent
POONCH, May 30: Not even a single visitor was there in PoK bound bus which left for Rawlakote (PoK) from Poonch city today.
Official sources said that total 57 PoK residents left for Rawlakote (PoK) in a bus today from here after staying with their relatives in Poonch and Rajouri areas for few weeks. Not even a single J&K resident was there in this bus. Only nine (9) passengers were there in the bus which arrived here from PoK side. Five were the PoK visitors while four J&K residents, who returned after meeting their relatives in PoK.
A senior officer in the District Administration Poonch said that due to non-clearance of travel documents of the J&K residents by Pak authorities for long, the visitors from this side are unable to visit that side and meet their relatives. He said that Pak authorities always cause unnecessary delay in clearing the travel documents of the people residing on this side. Therefore, their number is hardly 2 to 3 % while PoK residents are not facing such problem as Indian authorities conduct early disposal of their cases.
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