SRINAGAR : The weekly Karvan-e-Aman bus service between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), was today suspended following Iqbal Day celebrations on the other side of the Line of Control (LoC).
“The passengers who were scheduled to travel across the LoC were informed about the postponement due to Iqbal Day,” official sources said, adding next week, the bus will ply as usual.
Those who were scheduled to travel in today’s bus will be accommodated next week, they added.
The bus service has helped thousands of families, separated due to partition to meet each other after India and Pakistan agreed to allow travel of divided families, on Permits instead of International passports, to meet each other since the first bus was flagged off by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on April 7, 2005. Iqbal day is organised and celebrated on November 9 to pay tributrys to poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. (UNI)
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