Srinagar, July 1
A Pakistani helicopter, carrying Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and controversial Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, flew across the Line of Control (LoC) into the Indian side yesterday, a media report said here today. The chopper, also carrying Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) President Sardar Anwar Khan and Prime Minister Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan, crossed over to the Indian side yesterday afternoon, but immediately turned back after the pilot realised his mistake, a leading English daily from here, ‘Greater Kashmir’, said in its report from Chakothi in PoK.
The VVIP helicopter was waiting for its turn to land in a field adjacent to the cross-border bus terminal when its pilot by mistake flew across a water channel that marks the heavily militarised dividing line in the Chakothi sector, it said.
The Chakothi bus terminal is around 1.3 km away from the LoC.
Mr Aziz, Mr Ahmed and four other Federal Ministers visited the bus terminal to take stock of the facilities available to the passengers of trans-Kashmir bus service.
The Pakistani Information Minister, who was denied permission by India to board the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus, later said in a lighter vein that after all he made the journey to the other side of the LoC.
“I have briefly crossed the LoC but soon I will go to the other side by the cross-border bus service,’’ he added.
— UNI
