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People movement across LOC quake relief points

     New Delhi: India on Thursday said that the movement of people across the five relief points opened along the Line of Control (LoC) would be allowed this weekend. Navtej Sarna, Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman said people would begin crossing the border by this weekend at one of the first points on the LoC. "The schedule for the five points which are being opened and this will be for purposes of relief material and crossing of people whose names have been approved. These dates have been agreed to by Pakistan. Teetwal-Nausheri will be on November 19 and 26 and December 3 and 10, Poonch and Rawalkote crossing point will be November 21 and December 5. Mendhar-Tatpani on November 28 and December 12. Uri-Chakothi November 17 and December 1. Uri-Hajipur November 24 and December 8," said Sarna. The fifth and final crossing point on the de facto border dividing the two countries in Uri sector to facilitate the movement of relief material for quake-ravaged people on both sides of the divided line was opened on Wednesday. India and Pakistan had agreed to open five crossing points, as a humanitarian response to the October 8 earthquake that killed over 75,000 people, mostly in Pakistan occupied Kashmir. The governments of both Pakistan and India had been criticised for their hesitance in opening the border to help deliver aid to communities cut off by landslides in the mountains and valleys of the remote region, and to allow villagers to visit kinfolk on the other side.