As many as 60 dwellers of Azad Jammu Kashmir, belonging to the divided Kashmiri families, travelled to the occupied Kashmir valley through the weekly trans-LoC bus operating between Muzaffarabad and occupied Srinagar, official sources said. Similarly five Kashmiri residents of the Indian-occupied Kashmir travelled to this side of the Line of Control through the cross-LoC bus, the sources told APP late Friday.
Official sources said that 60 residents of AJK, including 24 women and 10 children, travelled to occupied Srinagar on Thursday afternoon after crossing the bridge by foot at Chakothi-Uri LoC entry point on Muzaffarabad-Srinagar road. They had gone to the bridge by the AJK bus before crossing the bridge, sources said adding six residents of occupied Kashmir, including three women, who had travelled to this side of the LoC, also returned back to home after meeting their relatives in the liberated territory of AJK.
The AJK residents travelling to occupied Srinagar on Thursday, gone for the first time to meet their relatives living in various parts of the occupied Kashmir after the long span of over 62 years since 1947. Similarly five residents of occupied, including one woman, of other side of the LoC (occupied Kashmir) crossed over to AJK for the first time to meet their relatives.