The JKLF today said the ceasefire along the border and the proposal to run a bus service between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad indicated that both India and Pakistan were moving towards accepting the LoC as a permanent border. JKLF leader Amanullah Khan said the recent peace steps by both nations ‘‘pointed at changing the LoC into a permanent border between these two’’. The outfit will also organise a long march from January 5-11 to oppose the division of the Valley along the LoC and to demand independence for Kashmir, he said. The march would start from Bhimber, south of PoK, and would culminate at Chakothi near LoC but the marchers would not cross into the Indian side of the LoC. Khan said JKLF continued to believe that the best possible solution of Kashmir issue was to accord complete independence which would act as a buffer between India and Pakistan.He also criticised Pakistan for falling into the peace trap and continue its ‘‘inconsistent’’ stand which enabled India to consolidate its stand on the Kashmir issue.
