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BORDER NEWS * India / Pakistan - Trucks start rolling, duty-free commerce across LoC opens
Initially, the cross-LoC trade will be allowed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays until a review, which will take place after three months
New Delhi,India -Livemint, by Krishnamurthy Ramasubbu -21 Oct 2008: -- Line of Control, Uri sector: On Tuesday, several trucks carrying goods such as rice, turmeric and chillies crossed the Kaman Aman Setu (bridge), marking the historic resumption of trade between the two sides of divided Kashmir in more than 61 years... The opening of the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad and the Poonch-Rawalakot routes for trade, dubbed the LoC (Line of Control) trade, which is duty-free and in either currency, raised high hopes of peace between India and Pakistan, which have fought each other in three major wars for regional supremacy... On the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad route, 13 trucks carrying apples, walnuts and handicraft were flagged off from Salamabad, about 18km from Kaman Post in the Uri sector of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). Similar facilities were set up in Chakoti in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) as well... (Picture by Ramesh Pathania / Mint - Building bridges: The first truck from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, carrying rice, turmeric and red chillies, crosses the Jhelum river at the Line of Control in Kashmir’s Uri sector on Tuesday)Labels: border news
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