KL Report
SRINAGAR
While reacting over union home ministry’s statement wherein it denied expanding cross LoC trade and travel, PDP Friday said expanding cross LoC trade is a part of the Common Minimum Program with the BJP.
Talking to KNS, PDP senior leader and Education Minister Naeem Akhtar said focus area of the PDP is to lift the siege along the state of Jammu and Kashmir, which is the result of the elements following independence.
“We will continue to work for it,” Akhtar said.
Pertinently, reports informed that the PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti submitted the question as to whether the Centre intends to facilitate or expand travel of people through the LoC, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs— in a written reply to the question— has said no such proposal was in place.
The Common Minimum Program between PDP and BJP over the formation of the government in Jammu and Kashmir after state elections of 2014 emphasized over the facilitation of the cross LoC trade and travel.
The ‘Agenda of Alliance’ between the two parties mention that the coalition government will seek to support and strengthen the approach and initiatives taken by the government to create a reconciliatory environment and build stakes for all in the peace and development within the subcontinent.
The same will be pursued by taking confidence building measures such as, enhancing people to people contact on both sides of the LoC, encouraging civil society exchanges, taking travel, commerce, trade and business across the LoC to the next level and opening new routes across all three regions to enhancing connectivity.
