Pak rejects proposal to link Jammu with Sialkot

New Delhi, Aug 17: Pakistan has rejected India's proposal to open Suchetgarh-Sialkot border in Jammu and Kashmir, Minister of State for External Affairs E. Ahamed said today.

During Foreign Secretary level-talks in the framework of a composite dialogue in June 2004, India had proposed a number of cooperation measures to Pakistan for enhancing people-to-people contact across the international border and the Line of Control.

These proposals included a Jammu-Sialkot bus link, Mr Ahamed told the Rajya Sabha during Question Hour.

The proposal for a Jammu-Sialkot bus link was reiterated later, most recently during Foreign Secretary level talks in January this year. But Pakistan has not accepted the proposal, said the Minister.

UNI

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