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![]() ![]() ![]() India, Pakistan set to start cross-LoC trade Mukhtar Ahmad in Srinagar | September 24, 2008 01:13 IST Arrangements for initiating trade across Line of Control [Images] and its infrastructural logistics are being given final touches ahead of a formal announcement expected following the meeting between the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [Images] and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session. The two sides had agreed to start cross-LoC trade at the meeting of the joint working group on confidence building measures via Uri-Muzaffarabad road and Poonch-Rawalakote routes. The Kargil-Skardu route is to be added later to the list. Reviewing the measures at a high level meeting in Srinagar [Images] on Tuesday evening, state Governor N N Vohra observed that arrangements would be ready on Uri-Muzaffarabad route by October 15 and on Poonch-Rawalakote route by the end of October. The joint working group has short-listed the items for trade between the two sides, which will be finalised in consultation with the respective governments. ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||