Welcoming the resumption of cross-LoC trade on Srinagar-Muzaffarabad route, PDP today batted for opening of all the traditional routes through Kashmir, Jammu, Ladakh and Kargil regions to facilitate strengthening of ties between India and Pakistan.
"Cross-LoC trade and travel are the only achievements for the people of Jammu and Kashmir since Independence in their effort to end the siege around the state...Time has come to take these relations to next level," PDP Patron and former chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed said, in a public meeting at Sunjwan near here.
"Trade and travel across the Line of Control shall not only be strengthen but a more effective mechanism should be established to curb any attempt to cause a setback to the process of reconciliation," he said.
The PDP patron said, "It is unfortunate that the trade and travel between the two sides has not developed to the level, as it should have been this time, but expressed hope that the two countries will read the writing on the wall and do away with the past baggage of hatred and animosity."
PDP, he said, will continue to struggle for the opening up of all traditional routes through Kashmir, Jammu, Ladakh and Kargil regions and lifting curbs on travel and trade to create an Economic Free Zone (EFC) across the state that has tremendous natural resources and could become one of the most affluent regions of the country.
