Indo-Pak friendship & peace march ends, but not on border

The India Pakistan friendship and peace march that kicked off from Ahmedabad ended at Nada Bet on Saturday. The BSF didn't give permission for the march to begin from Nadeshwari Mata Mandir.

The march was taken out with demands that India and Pakistan should stop cross-border firing, grant easy visa permission to travel across the border, waive visa for the old, children, journalists, academics, social activities and labourers, and open a route on Gujarat border with Sindh to facilitate travel and create trade route, either at Khavda or Nada bet.

Another demand was that China, India and Pakistan give up their nuclear weapons to make Asia a Nuclear Weapon Free Zone, replace the daily evening military ceremony at Wagha-Attari border by a peace ceremony, and allow people from two countries to meet freely for a couple of hours every day without passports and visas, merely by depositing one of their identity cards. Thirteen people — who assembled from UP, Delhi, Punjab and Gujarat and participated in the march for the last 11 days — collected 500 signatures. Letter will be sent to PMs of India and Pakistan.

"A demand was raised during the march at Balisana where about hundred families have relatives who live in Karachi, to open a Pakistani Consulate at Ahmedabad," said Kaleem Siddique, one of the organizers. A letter has been written to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to start a bus service between Ahmedabad and Karachi, similar to the one started by former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee between Delhi and Lahore.