Official sources said that only sixteen persons boarded the weekly bus from Valley to Pakistan administered Kashmir this morning.
Among them, 10 including six males, a child and 3 females were fresh visitors from Valley while remaining 4 were Pak residents who returned home after completing 28-day stay here. The returnees included 3 males and equal number of females.
Similarly, they said, only six persons reached Valley from Pak and comprised of four first timers and two returnees from this side who travelled back home after completing stay of stipulated time there.
The first timers, who would meet their relatives first time in more than six decades after partition of India and Pakistan, included two females and two males.
As many as fifty-six members of the divided families made it to the weekly bus service to exchange sides from Chakan-Da-Bagh crossing point at Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu on Monday last.
On last Thursday, 41 members of divided families had crossed sides via Uri crossing-point that was opened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in April 2005.
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