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Highway connecting Ladakh with Kashmir closed yet again 5/30/2015 11:08:04 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, May 30: The national highway, linking the Ladakh region with the Kashmir valley, was closed yet again due to landslides, triggered by rain while Srinagar-Jammu and historic Mughal road were through. The Srinagar-Leh national highway has been closed following fresh landslides at Panimatha near Zojila pass, a traffic police official said here today. He said the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), responsible for the maintenance of the highway has already pressed into service sophisticated machines and men to clear the landslides on the highway. No vehicle was allowed from Sonamarg from this side of the Zojila pass, he said adding that similarly vehicles were stopped at Drass, Meenmarg and other parts on other side. Traffic will be allowed only when a green signal is received from the BRO and traffic police officials posted at different places, he said. Meanwhile, large number of vehicles, which were scheduled to leave this morning different parts of the Ladakh towards Kashmir remained stranded on other side of the Pass. Similarly vehicles which were scheduled to leave for Leh and Kargil this afternoon are at Sonamarg. Though the highway is open for both ways but only one-way traffic is allowed at Zojila where the road is still very narrow because of huge walls of snow on both sides. The road reopened early this month after remaining closed for about five winter months due to snowfall. Meanwhile, one-way traffic continued on Srinagar-Jammu national highway, the only road connecting the Kashmir valley with the rest of the country. Traffic was allowed from Jammu to Srinagar today, he said. Similarly only one-way traffic is plying on Mughal road connecting Shopian in south Kashmir with Rajouri and Poonch in Jammu region. Today vehicles will ply from Shopian to Rajouri and Poonch. Efforts are being made to restore two way traffic on both the roads.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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