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Jammu and Kashmir gets ready for cross LoC trade |
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It's ready, steady and go for business between the two parts of Jammu and Kashmir divided between India and Pakistan on the cross-LoC Poonch-Rawalkote route.
From Oct 28, trucks would start rolling between Poonch and Rawalkote - a week after it would begin on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad route.
The move comes after an announcement from New York, following a meeting between Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, that business across the Line of Control would begin on the two routes from Oct 21.
At Chakan-da-Bagh, the point where Indian and Pakistani parts of Kashmir meet on Poonch-Rawalkote road, officials took stock of the infrastructure and then decided on the Oct 28 date.
"Everything is in place and we are waiting for the traders' delegation from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir to visit this side and ours to go to that side," said a provincial official.
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