Travel Srinagar bus, with delicious food in your plate
The passengers of the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus would not only be happy to meet their friends and relatives cross the border, the journey on the bus will also be a surprise for them as they would be getting some really delicious traditional food on their way.
Traditional Kashmiri cuisine awaits passengers of historic of the bus.
As the stage is being set for the historic Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service, officials of Jammu and Kashmir Tourist Development Corporation (JKTDC) in Srinagar are working day and night to prepare menu for passengers from both the sides of the border.
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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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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 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
Pakistan Information Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed has not applied to travel on the next Muzaffarabad-Srinagar cross-Line of Control bus, official sources said here on Thursday.
Mr. Ahmed, who has been in the eye of the storm following remarks by the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front leader, Yaseen Malik, that the Information Minister ran militant training camps, had expressed a desire to travel by the bus to meet relatives in Kashmir.
The sources said that the name of the Pakistan Information Minister, who was in New Delhi during General Pervez Musharraf's visit in April, did not figure in the list of
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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