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Cross-LoC bus service from Poonch resumes
August 26, 2019 18:28 IST
A week after it was suspended, the Poonch-Rawalakot cross-Line of Control bus service resumed on Monday, with 46 stranded passengers, including 40 from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, returning home, an official said.
The weekly service was suspended on August 19 after authorities in PoK did not respond to a call from their Indian counterparts to let a bus get across the LoC, according to officials.
"The bus service resumed with 40 PoK residents and six Indian citizens returning to their homes," said District Development Commissioner, Poonch, Rahul Yadav. The permits of two other PoK residents, who had arrived in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch a week ahead of Eid-ul-Azha to meet their relatives, is yet to expire, he said, adding that there was no fresh traveller from either side.
The bus service, popularly known as 'Paigam-e-Aman', is on every Monday and it did not stop despite tension along the LoC in view of frequent ceasefire violations by Pakistan which has claimed the lives of three army personnel and a civilian since August 17.
However, it was suspended last Monday, after officials said "we had sent a message to PoK authorities for bus service today (August 19), but they did not respond".
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Gautam