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| 'Peace Bus' passengers relatives jailed in Pakistani Kashmir |
| 2005-04-26 |
| 'Muzaffarabad visit became a nightmare' Tuesday, 26 April , 2005, 15:57 Muzaffarabad/Srinagar: The bus between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad may have been welcomed by Kashmiris on both sides, when it started off on April 7, but for some of them going to Muzaffarabad, the journey turned out to be a nightmare. When the passengers reached Muzaffarabad they found that their relatives had been jailed. This triggered off protests and demonstrations. Mohammad Yousuf Bhatt, a resident of Srinagar, alleged that the authorities in Pakistan were out to gag people in Muzaffarabad, lest they reveal information that would show Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in bad light. "Our innocent friends and relatives have been arrested. Of them, 26 are in prison and more than a hundred are missing. We are demanding to know why they were taken into custody. We aren't even allowed to meet them," Bhatt said. The Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus was hailed by both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf as a historic step, and in their recent joint declaration in New Delhi both leaders resolved to initiate more measures to increase contact between Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control.(LoC) But, with such actions in PoK, it seems Islamabad has a skeleton or two in its cupboard when it comes to Kashmir. ANI |
| Posted by:john |
| #2 nice post John, but, as TW (more nicely than I can conjure up) says - post the link properly, please, otherwise, they become amusing "anecdotes". I think you care more than that about the subjects... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-04-26 9:03:39 PM |
| #1 john, when I post an article, I paste the web page at the bottom where it asks for source. The moderators sweetly make the title link to the web address, the way all the other guys somehow know how to do. ;-) (It is a comfort to me, though, that I am at least temporarily not a set of 1. Be kind when yo've passed me up.) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-04-26 8:55:40 PM |