Pakistan Information Minister Sheikh Rashid today denied media reports that he has altered his plans to travel to Jammu and Kashmir by the Muzaffarabad-Srinagar bus service.
Reports in the Pakistan media that I am planning to go to Srinagar via New Delhi are wrong, Rashid told PTI.
He said he would travel by the Muzafarabad-Srinagar bus service on June 30.
Media reports here said that Rashid altered his plans in response to criticism from some politicians here that he was committing a “sin” by crossing the LoC to travel to Srinagar.
Rashid also said that contrary to earlier reports he would travel by the bus on June 30 instead of June 16.
The visiting Huriyat leaders would be returning to Srinagar by June 16 after a fortnight stay here.
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The government has said that it has not yet received the travel application of Pakistan Information Minister Sheikh Rashid for travelling on June 30 by the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus.
"As far as I know, till now, no such application has been received," External Affairs Ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna told reporters.
Asked whether he would be allowed to come, the spokesman repeated that no application has been received from the Pakistani minister.
Pakistan has said it would forward his name for permission to travel by the Muzaffarabad-Srinagar bus.
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Pakistan Information Minister Sheikh Rashid, suspected of running a terrorist training camp, has not yet sent in his application for travelling on June 30 by the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus, it was officially stated today.
"As far as I know, till now, no such application has been received," External Affairs Ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna told reporters here.
Asked whether he would be allowed to come, the spokesman repeated that no application has been received by the Pakistani minister.
On whether Rashid would require the entry permit since Parliamentarians among SAARC countries have been exempted from visa requirements for travelling to each others' country, he said
30 people to travel on inaugural bus to Srinagar
Thirty people, including two former Judges of the PoK and Lahore High Courts, will be travelling by the inaugural bus from Muzaffarabad to Srinagar on April 7.
The authorities have finalised 30 names of the 40 verified by India to travel on the inaugural bus to Srinagar, officials said. Former Pakistan-occupied Kashmir High Court Judge Sadeeq Farooqi, and former Lahore High Court Justice Syed Sharif Hussain Bukhari, will be among those travelling in the bus.
Meanwhile, members of the divided Kashmiri families in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) were eagerly waiting for their turn
Pakistan Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sheikh Rashid Ahmad will board the next Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus for a "private" visit to Jammu and Kashmir in response to an invitation by visiting JKLF leader Yasin Malik.
"I have decided to accept the invitation of Yasin Malik and I intend to obtain travel documents of the next Muzaffarabad-Srinagar bus," Ahmed told Geo TV on Saturday.
This means the Pakistani Minister would be leaving along with the Hurriyat leaders who arrived by the bus on June 1.
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Pakistan's Information Minister Sheikh Rashid today applied for the special permit to travel by the Muzaffarabad-Srinagar bus for a visit to Jammu and Kashmir where he planned to meet Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
"I have applied today, sought a seat in the June 15 bus. I want to go as a common citizen and common Kashmiri," Rashid told Geo TV here.
He said it would be a private visit being undertaken at the invitation of JKLF leader Yasin Malik, who is currently touring Pakistan along with moderate Hurriyat leaders, including Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.
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