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Officials of India, Pakistan commerce ministries hold meeting
Amritsar, December 13
In order to give a boost to the existing trade ties between two neighbouring countries, officials from commerce ministries of India and Pakistan today held a meeting at the Integrated Check Post (ICP) at Attari.

Poppy husk recovered
Nakodar, December 13
The Nakodar Police has recovered 30 bags of poppy husks from a canter (PB-09N-1346) near Jahangir village today during the ongoing campaign against drugs abuse.

Woman killed in mishap
Nakodar, December 13
An old woman, identified as Gurmit Kaur (64) of local Ravidasspura locality, was crushed to death by a speeding car, which hit her near Mehatpur Road yesterday. The car driver managed to flee, the police said.

Officials of India, Pakistan commerce ministries hold meeting
Tribune News Service

Amritsar, December 13
In order to give a boost to the existing trade ties between two neighbouring countries, officials from commerce ministries of India and Pakistan today held a meeting at the Integrated Check Post (ICP) at Attari.

According to sources in the Custom Department here, Pakistan commerce secretary Munir Qureshi has assured his Indian counterpart of taking appropriate measures for solving the problems currently being faced by the Indian traders in exporting their goods to Pakistan.

He along with his team members visited and inspected the infrastructure available at the ICP. The Pakistan team interacted with their Indian counterparts, headed by Indira Pruthi, Director, Commerce. Munir Qureshi said the Pakistan Government was very serious about enhancing the trade through the Integrated Check Post at Attari.

The Indian authorities informed their Pakistani counterparts about the long queues of trucks forming on the Indian side owing to lesser number of trucks being allowed to enter Pakistan by the Pakistani custom authorities. Following this, Munir Qureshi interacted with the drivers of the trucks, who have been stranded at the border for the past one week waiting for their turn to crossover to Pakistan.

“We have been waiting for our turn for the last four to five days,” a driver told the Pakistan team, while urging them to enhance the intake of number of trucks on their side.

The Commerce Ministry and custom officials here suggested some measures to their Pakistani counterparts for increasing the number of trucks entering their country by way of random screening of trucks crossing over to the other side of the border, besides increasing the timings.

At present about 150 trucks are coming from the Pakistani side as compared to 100 trucks going to the other side on daily basis. The Pakistani authorities refused to allow the trucks to enter their side after 4 pm, due to which trucks remained stranded at the Integrated Check Post at Attari.

Qureshi, while assuring the Indian authorities, said he would take up the matter with the authorities concerned of his country on his return.

Poppy husk recovered
Our Correspondent

Nakodar, December 13
The Nakodar Police has recovered 30 bags of poppy husks from a canter (PB-09N-1346) near Jahangir village today during the ongoing campaign against drugs abuse.

This was confirmed by SP Rajinder Singh. He said though no accused could be nabbed. The police will reach up to them after tracing the registration number of the vehicle. A case under Sections 15, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Act was registered.

In another case, the police has arrested a drug peddler, Ajay Kumar of Bhainiana, and recovered 110 gm intoxicant powder.

In the third case, the police recovered 49 kg of poppy husk from Kala of Sunnrra-Kalan village yesterday.

Woman killed in mishap
Our Correspondent

Nakodar, December 13
An old woman, identified as Gurmit Kaur (64) of local Ravidasspura locality, was crushed to death by a speeding car, which hit her near Mehatpur Road yesterday. The car driver managed to flee, the police said.

A case under Sections 304A and 279 of the IPC was registered by the Nakodar police against the car driver. The body of Gurmit Kaur has been handed over to her family members after postmortem at the Nakodar Civil Hospital.