Sonia to flag off Poonch-Rawalkot bus

Apart from these passengers, 15 more residents of PoK, who had crossed over through ‘‘foot points’’ like Mendhar and Poonch, would also leave tomorrow, while 36 residents of Jammu region would return by the same bus service. Initially to have been launched today, the bus service was postponed by a day to tie-up some ‘‘loose ends’’ on both the sides, the sources said.

The army was giving last-minute touches ahead of Gandhi’s visit. The state police and security personnel from other paramilitary forces including some army batallions were combing the area amid intelligence inputs that LeT militants had sneaked into the area from across the border by snipping the barbed wire fence, sources said.

This is the second bus service to be launched from J-K to PoK. The first, operating between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad, was inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on April 7 last year.