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Pak PM sends formal proposal for LoC opening

     Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said today that a formal draft proposal has been delivered to Indian government for opening Line of Control to allow any number of people coming across the LoC to meet their relatives and assist in reconstruction. Five places to this end had been notified in the draft proposal, Aziz said. While speaking to media here today at the House of Prime Minister, he said: "A formal draft proposal for opening Line of Control has been sent to Indian government and now we are waiting India's response to it." However, he hoped for a positive reaction to the proposal. He informed that a donors conference would be held in Islamabad in the month of November for rehabilitation of the earthquake affectees after Geneva conference on October 26. Responding to a question, he told soon Nato engineers and medical teams would come Pakistan.