Rawlakot-Poonch: Cross-LoC trade and travel suspended indefinitely

The news comes following unprovoked firing four days back by Indian troops across the Line of Control (LoC) on Battal sector, Hajeera sub-division, Rawalakot district, in which two civilians including a woman were seriously injured.

AJK Trade and Travel Authority Director General Brigadier (Retd) Muhammad Ismail confirmed that the weekly cross-LoC travel on Mondays and four-day trade on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays through the Rawlakot –Poonch route is suspended. However, he said that the weekly trans-LoC travel and trade through Muzaffarabad – Srinagar route is continuing as routine.

Published In The Express Tribune, June 19^th, 2012.