Channeling funds for terror, supply of arms to terrorists, fake currency, drugs and infiltration of third-party goods were main reasons behind the suspension of trade on Line of Control (LoC) by the Government, a senior Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) functionary said in New Delhi on April 19, reports Daily Excelsior. “Unfortunately, the third parties manipulated the trade and misused it for trading goods being produced from outside the state of Jammu and Kashmir”, the UMHA officials said. “For example the almonds produced in California finding their way through LoC trade involving a large transport network spread in many countries”, he added
The LoC trade has been suspended on April 19 by the Government till further order. LoC trade across Chakan-Da-Bagh and Salamabad was intended as a confidence building measure for the population living in remote areas of Jammu and Kashmir and living across LoC in Pakistan occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) and Jammu and Kashmir (J&K).