Thirty-four companies based in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) have been blacklisted from trading on the twin cross-Line of Control (LoC) routes of Uri-Muzaffarabad and Poonch-Rawalakote in Jammu and Kashmir.
“We received the list of 34 Muzaffarabad-based companies from the office of Director (Trade and Travel Authority), PoK, suggesting that they were involved in subversive activities. We were instructed that these companies should not be traded with hereafter. The same companies have been blacklisted,” Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM), Uri, Sagar D. Doifode, who is also the custodian of cross-LoC trade, told The Hindu.
Mr. Doifode said the J&K authorities are also preparing a list of about eight companies suspected of “involvement in subversive activisities”. This list would be handed over to the PoK authorities for barring them from any cross-LoC trade.