India and Pakistan on Saturday agreed to expand Cross-LoC travel and trade as part of the efforts to build up Confidence Building Measures (CBM) between the two countries.
This was agreed during External Affairs Minister SM Krishna’s meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar in Islamabad.
The ministers reviewed the existing Cross-LoC CBMs and acknowledged that the ceasefire was holding since 2003. Taking note of the recommendations made by the Joint Working Group (JWG) on Cross-LoC CBMs in its meeting in Islamabad on July 19, 2012, the ministers decided that Cross-LoC travel would be expanded on both sides of LoC to include visits for tourism and religious pilgrimage.
—PTI