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The launching of Cross LoC Bus Service via Srinagar-Muzaffarabad route in 2005.
The launching of Cross LoC Bus Service via Srinagar-Muzaffarabad route in 2005.

The weekly Karvan-e-Aman cross Line of Control (LoC) bus service, operating between Srinagar and Muzafarabad, capital of Pakistan administrative Kashmir (PaK), resumed Monday morning after remaining suspended for four times this year, so far.

Three buses, carrying 63 returnees and ten Kashmiri residents, have reached Salamabad, Uri at 0700 hrs from Srinagar, official sources said.

They said the bus service was suspended on July 4 in view of the Eid-ul-Fitr. However, due to civil uprising after the killing of popular militant commander Burhan Wani and two other militants in south Kashmir on July 8, the bus service could not operate on July 11 and July 18.

Curfewed Srinagar on July 24, 2016. (KL Image: Bilal Bahadur)
Curfewed Srinagar on July 24, 2016. (KL Image: Bilal Bahadur)

Today three buses carrying 63 PaK and ten Kashmiri residents left State Road Transport Corporation (SRTC) yard Bemina at 0430 hrs. All the buses reached Trade Facilitation Centre (TFC), Salamabad Uri at 0700 hrs safely, reports said.

Sources said 63 PaK residents who had arrived in previous buses before Eid-ul-Fitr, could not return to their homes because of suspension of the bus service.

They included 24 women and 16 children. Ten Kashmiris, including five women and a child, are travelling to PaK to meet their relatives, separated due to partition in 1947.

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