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By B. Muralidhar Reddy
ISLAMABAD, MARCH 6. Pakistan will start issuing application forms for travel permits from next week for the Muzaffarabad-Srinagar bus service, scheduled to be launched on April 7. Quoting unidentified officials, Pakistan English daily, Dawn said the forms would be available at the Deputy Commissioner's office in Muzaffarabad. From the Indian side, the forms are being issued from Regional Passport Office, Srinagar. According to the paper, to begin with the frequency of the service would be fortnightly. It said Islamabad and New Delhi have agreed to facilitate speedy processing of travel permits and set a timeline of two weeks for security clearance of travellers. At the outset, a 30-seater bus would be run. A separate coach carrying the media team is likely to be run with the inaugural bus to cover the re-opening of the historic route. A police van would also tail the bus, the paper said. Officials have been quoted as saying that most of the passengers would be Kashmiris. The logic is that the basic objective of starting the bus service was to facilitate divided Kashmiri families to meet each other.
`Easing restrictions'
In a related development, on a request from the Pakistan chapter of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), Islamabad has decided to ask the Centre to improve travelling facilities between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad by `easing restrictions' on the people of Jammu and Kashmir. The APHC convener of Pak-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Pakistan chapter, Farooq Rehmani, said "we have told the Pakistani government that there are a number of restrictions on Kashmiris in respect of travel to Azad Kashmir and without removing them majority of the people cannot benefit from this latest confidence building measure." He identified five major Indian laws that could cause `hurdles' for the Kashmiris travelling to PoK. These, he said, included detention laws, Disturbed Area Act, Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, Public Safety Act, modified POTA and Unlawful Activities Act.
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