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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
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LoC

LoC Travel: Seven Years After

Opening the Jhelum Valley Road (JVR) connecting Srinagar with Muzaffarabad, the Pakistani administered Kashmir (PaK) capital in April 2005 was a path-breaking initiative between...

Politics of rehabilitation

They have been returning home to Kashmir in small numbers quietly from the Pakistani side via Nepal, but a larger number may be waiting...

GRIDLOCKED

Despite the hype and promise of trade flourishing on both sides of the Line of Control, the reality is far from ideal. Shams Irfan...

Rehabilitation or Harassment?

Released or ex-militants have had to continue suffer harassment and indignity long after having endured physical torture during their detention by government forces. After...

What LoC!

Four villages in the remote picturesque valley of Gurez, almost treacherous 150 kilometers from Srinagar, have had no milk for past more than 10...

MESS OF A TRADE

Ten months after Prime Minister Singh promised to make trans-LoC trade ‘more viable and hassle-free’, President Zardari termed it a ‘pioneering CBM’ on Kashmir....

Distortion of History

Archival evidence suggests that Indo-China border dispute have no roots in history and old maps were burnt in the Ministry of External Affairs to...

Yearning to cross over

In four years of its operation, the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus has ferried 11,000 passengers across the Line of Control to meet their families. Thousands are...

Home Calling!

As New Delhi debates its surrender policy and draws flak for calling back ‘militants’ from PaK, hardly anyone explains that apart from intending or...

Marriage of the year

Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman Yasin Malik brought home his Pakistani bride Mushaal Mullick known for her racy paintings. The 40-year-old Malik had married...

‘Pathogen’ Solution to Garlic Scare

An otherwise antibiotic and antioxidant, Garlic coming through the trans-LoC trade has become a headache for the government of India. R S Gull reports...

A CBM Hijacked

Lured by waived custom duties, Delhi based traders are trying to infiltrate Cross LoC trade meant only for the two sides of Kashmir.  Hamidullah Dar reports.
 
The cross LoC trade in Jammu & Kashmir is experiencing a ‘hijack’ by traders from Delhi. That is at least what traders from Kashmir were contesting, forcing the custodian officer of Trade Facilitation Centre at Salamabad in Uri to send back 33 vehicles to Chakoti TFC on May 6.
The barter trade initiated between the two parts of Kashmir last year exempts traded goods from customs duty. Experts say that these tax concessions are luring the Delhi based traders to exploit the opportunity while keeping the locals at bay.