KARACHI, May 21: Lawyers have urged the governments of Pakistan and India to take up the issue of reopening of the Khokhrapar border in the proposed talks with India.

They said the reopening of the border, which was closed in 1965, would facilitate members of the divided families to meet one another and would also help create job opportunities.

Most of the passenger and goods traffic between India and Pakistan originate or end up in the province of Sindh.

According to a press release issued by the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, a memorandum containing the demand was signed, among others, by Supreme Court Bar Association President Hamid Khan, Pakistan Bar Council members Farooq H. Naek and Abul Inam, Sindh Bar Council Vice-Chairman Yasin Azad, Sindh High Court Bar Association President Muneer A. Malik, SHCBA Secretary Yawar Farooqui, KBA President Mohammad Ali Abbasi, and LCHR President Aqil Lodhi.