Passengers

Published April 5, 2005
MUZAFFARABAD, April 4: The authorities have finalized 30 names of the 40 verified by India to travel on the inaugural bus to Srinagar on April 7. Those settled in Muzaffarabad, included Raja Ferozuddin; Nisar Ahmed Rather (Editor Urdu Daily Siasat); Mushtaq Butt (former AJK secretary); former MLA Begum Zummurad Sharif and her son Arshad Qureshi; Zulakhan Begum; Amjad Khan; Syed Shahid Bahar; Alhaj Ashraf Qureshi; Ajmal Basharat; Qazi Anwar ul Haq Qasmi; Syed Sanaul Haq Bukhari; Nisar Ahmed Mir; Abida Masoodi; Chaudhry Mohammad Akbar and Dr Tajamal Hussain Rathore.

Those settled in Kotli, included Aurangzeb Khan; Sardar Bashir Khan and Sardar Mohammad Yaqoob Khan and those from Mirpur, included Chaudhry Mohammad Manzoor; Mohammad Raza Khan; and Mohammad Hussain Kalas.

Kashmiri refugees or AJK nationals settled in Rawalpindi/Islamabad, included Mr Hameed Akhtar; Syed Akram Shah; Sadeeq Farooqi (former AJK High Court judge) and Mohammad Shamim Qureshi.

Among others are Syed Sharif Hussain Bukhari (former Lahore High Court judge) who settled in Lahore and Ms Fareeda Ghani in Abbottabad.

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