KARACHI, Dec 20: Speakers at a reception on Wednesday demanded that efforts be made to increase the people-to-people contact opportunities between India and Pakistan so that the masse and members of the divided families could meet easily.

Speaking at the reception held for a former Indian education minister, Aziz Qureshi, who is here on a visit on the invitation of the Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy, they also demanded that the facility of issuing non-police reporting visas for the entire country at the entry point to senior citizens and journalists be started.

They further demanded that a ferry service between Karachi and Mumbai be started, issuance of visas for members of the divided families be made easier, visit visas to encourage tourism be issued, more travel routes and border entry points be opened, students of one country be allowed to study in the other, etc.

Besides Mr Qureshi, Justice (retd) Salahuddin Mirza, M. B. Naqvi, Zahida Hina, Mir Hasil Bizenjo, PIPFPD chief Asad Butt and others also spoke.