MUZAFFARABAD, March 26: Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Sikandar Hayat would see off and receive the passengers of the first buses leaving for and arriving from Srinagar here on April 7 when they start moving between the divided Kashmir capitals, the AJK cabinet was told here on Saturday. The informal meeting of the cabinet was held at the prime minister’s office to be given a briefing by chief secretary Kashif Murtaza on the arrangements for the bus service. The cabinet was told that the first bus would leave for the held Kashmir summer capital from the Bank Square where a temporary terminal was being set up in the building of Azad Kashmir Logging and Sawmills Corporation (AKLASC), at about 9am. Premier Hayat would send off the bus, with 30 passengers on board, at a well-attended ceremony outside the terminal building, which was likely to be attended by the chiefs of the political parties and members of the AJK assembly, AJK council, government officials and people at large.

The AJK minister for relief and rehabilitation, Aamir Ghaffar Lone, told Dawn that the government would shortly invite the heads of the political parties to grace the historic function.

On the same afternoon, the AJK premier would receive the passengers from occupied Kashmir at the bus terminal in Chakothi sector, some 61 kilometres south of here near the Line of Control.