Pakistan on Wednesday rejected India's assertion that it violated the understanding reached on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service by allowing Kashmiri separatist leaders to travel beyond Pakistan-occupied Kashmir recently and said their visit was part of the peace process and a "positive development."
Responding to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's remarks on Tuesday that Islamabad violated the understanding reached between the two countries on the bus service by allowing Hurriyat leaders to travel beyond PoK, Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesman Jalil Abbas Jilani said, "there has been no violation of any understanding whatsoever."
The Hurriyat leaders' visit to Pakistan without passports and visas does not violate any provisions of the India-Pak agreement to run Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service, he said.
Jilani said Pakistan had not received any "official communication" from the Indian side in this context and described the visit of the Hurriyat delegation as "a positive development".
"We view the visit of the Hurriyat leaders as part of the peace process," he said.