{"id":169205,"date":"2025-02-16T09:42:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T04:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=169205"},"modified":"2025-02-16T09:42:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T04:42:25","slug":"iiojk-congress-chief-calls-for-resumption-of-cross-loc-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/02\/16\/iiojk-congress-chief-calls-for-resumption-of-cross-loc-trade.html","title":{"rendered":"IIOJK Congress chief calls for resumption of Cross-LoC trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-169206\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/karra-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"181\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jammu: Congress IIOJK President Hameed Karra has pitched for the resumption of the cross-LoC trade, which was suspended by the BJP-led Indian government in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, Karra said this while addressing a district convention in Poonch as part of the Congress\u2019s 15-day campaign, \u201cHamari Riyasat Hamara Haq\u201d (our state our right), to press for an early restoration of statehood to occupied Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>He requested the government to explore all possibilities for the resumption of the cross-border trade to boost the territory\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>New Delhi suspended the cross-LoC (Line of Control) trade and travel in April 2019 from the two designated points at Salamabad-Uri in north Kashmir and Chakan-Da-Bagh in Poonch on baseless accusations.<\/p>\n<p>Criticising the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for \u201cbetraying and disempowering\u201d the residents of Kashmir by bifurcating the territory, Karra said India has indulged in \u201cdeceitful tactics to befool the people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe patience of the people here is running out and the residents of Jammu and Kashmir will not tolerate such tactics of the BJP,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Karra also criticised the BJP for neglecting the border belt of Poonch-Rajouri in infrastructure development, employment and overall governance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu: Congress IIOJK President Hameed Karra has pitched for the resumption of the cross-LoC trade, which was suspended by the BJP-led Indian government in 2019. According to Kashmir Media Service, Karra said this while addressing a district convention in Poonch as part of the Congress\u2019s 15-day campaign, \u201cHamari Riyasat Hamara Haq\u201d (our state our right), &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-169205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-top-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/karra-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}