Pakistan and India open LoC

Pakistan and India opened a crossing on 'line of control' (LoC) on Monday to help earthquake survivors, but the historic move was quickly beset by trouble when Pakistan's villagers were turned back on their side by police firing teargas.
Pakistan police also fired shots into the air as the protesters tried to approach the heavily militarised Line of Control.
Some protesters shouted "Let people cross" and "What we want is freedom", and at least two men carrying children ran towards the border, apparently trying to cross to the Indian side, before they were stopped.
"We want an independent Kashmir. We don't respect this border," said one of the protesters, Azhar Mushtaq.
Shortly before the brief protest, Indian and Pakistan military officials opened the border in a largely symbolic gesture to help survivors of the October 8 earthquake that killed more than 73,000 people in Pakistan and about 1,300 in India.
Pakistan officials said only quake aid would be crossing the line on Monday as paperwork, which includes an exchange of lists of those wishing to travel and security checks, had delayed hoped-for family reunions.
Applications take about 10 days to process.
"We want to see our relatives. We don't have any other objective," said another protester, Abdul Rauf, who said his parents lived on the Indian side.
Very few onlookers turned out to watch the border opening on the Indian side, apparently because there are few villages in the area.
BARRIERS Earlier, military officials from the two sides shook hands across the line and an orange Indian truck carrying relief goods backed up to it while a Pakistani truck drove up in reverse from its side.
Men then began unloading sacks from the Indian truck into the Pakistani one. The supplies are part of a $25 million earthquake aid package from India.
"This is a historical event. There have been physical and mental barriers for 60 years. Now the mental barriers are crumbling," said B.R. Sharma, a senior civil servant from the Indian side, before the protest.
Both sides are nervous about the opening. The Pakistanis say they do not want the Indian military to see their defences, while India is worried that Muslim militants fighting its rule in Kashmir might try to slip in.
"We don't need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones," said Pakistani villager Abdul Hafiz.
VILLAGERS IN TITRINOTE SAID THEY DID NOT NEED HELP Opening a crossing into Pakistan's hard-hit Neelum valley, about 80 km (50 miles) to the north, would be most useful for the relief effort as that area is still cut off by landslides, aid workers say.
India says it will open a route into the Neelum valley on Thursday, but Pakistan says a bridge must be laid across a river before relief goods can come in.
With roads swept away by landslides, any aid from the Indian side passing through that crossing would still have to be moved by helicopter to communities outside the immediate area.