The Indian side, led by Road Transport Joint Secretary Alok Rawat, suggested during the talks that passengers travelling on the proposed service be made to carry entry permits along with passports.
India and Pakistan have agreed to import carpets, raw products and food items from both sides of Kashmir by trucks on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad route from July this year.
As Antony talked to army officers and journalists accompanying him, several camera flashes went off on the Pakistani side.
Mufti has said that the peace process is now a golden chance that should not be squandered.
Also in the pipeline, are talks on more bus services.
Under the Indo-Pak agreement for the launch of bus service, any permanent resident of Jammu and Kashmir can travel only between two parts of undivided state on a permit.
Pakistan and India also decided to increase the frequency of the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus services, official sources said.
Describing the peace process as ''fairly irreversible'', the Pakistan president said India's wish to see the LoC converted into a permanent border was not acceptable.
What the application form for the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus looks like.
Many of the 14,600 aspirants, who want to cross the border to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus, will have to wait more than a decade for their wish to come true, if there is no change in the frequency of the existing service.The fortnightly bus service, which has completed three years of operation, can only ferry 450 passengers a year on an average to the other side of the border. Alto14,600 applications have been received from Kashmiris to visit PoK
India and Pakistan simultaneously announced the dates for talks on confidence building measures.
"I got the invitation from the Pakistan High Commission on Tuesday," Geelani said.
"The list of passengers [who will be] on the second bus is being sent to the media so that they can be warned against undertaking the journey in this coffin."
"We have collected the complete bio-data of both the drivers of the State Road Transport Corporation. They are warned not to play with their lives by driving these buses," four militant groups said.
While the death of one person has been confirmed, the fate of the remaining 17 people is not known
The bus service was suspended after authorities in PoK did not respond to call from their Indian counterparts.
India on Tuesday summoned Pakistan Acting High Commissioner Mansoor Ahmad in connection with the suspension of Srinagar-Muzaffarabad and Rawalakot-Poonch bus services by Pakistan, which has demanded release of its national arrested for smuggling narcotics worth Rs 100 crore across the LoC.
From being billed as mother of "all confidence building measures" to derision as a "cosmetic step", Srinagar-Muzaffarabad cross-Line of Control bus service has survived tensions between India and Pakistan including Mumbai terror attacks and numerous ceasefire violations along the border to complete 10 years of its operation on Tuesday.
The Srinagar-Muzaffarbad bus service on Monday resumed after remaining suspended for two weeks following a deadlock over the arrest of a driver from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on drug trafficking charges.
While 26 trucks crossed over to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, 13 from there reached the Indian side.
United Jihad Council chairman and supreme commander of Hizbul Mujaheedin Syed Salah-ud-Din will address a seminar in Srinagar via telephone from Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir on Wednesday. Ahsan Untoo, chairman of the human rights group, said the seminar will be attended by several senior separatist leaders including Mirwaiz Moulvi Umar Farooq, Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik.
"The introdution of this landmark bus service is a tangible achievement of the composite dialogue between India and Pakistan," Annan said in a statement on Wednesday.
Curfew remained imposed for the second day today in Srinagar district in Jammu and Kashmir with no untoward incident being reported so far from anywhere in the Valley.Curfew was imposed on Monday in Kashmir after a protest march towards Pakistan occupied Kashmir capital Muzaffarabad -- organised by fruit growers and separatists against the 'economic blockade'-- turned violent.Prominent Hurriyat leader Sheikh Abdul Aziz and three others were killed and hundreds injured.
The former J-K CM said Shardapeeth in Pak-administered Kashmir is an outstanding relic of Kashmir's glowing history.
The Caarvan-e-Aman bus left in the morning with 24 passengers from this side and 12, who were returning to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
'I have faced 18 hours of darkness daily all my life.'
The young couple defied the odds and came together in holy matrimony at a time of unrest.
The weekly service was suspended on August 19 after authorities in PoK did not respond to a call from their Indian counterparts to let a bus get across the LoC.
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