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Relief points for quake survivors across LoC

     New Delhi: Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said three border points on the Line of Control (LoC) - Teetwal in Tangdhar, Aman Setu in Uri sector and Chakan Da Bagh in Poonch - are operational to provide relief to earthquake survivors of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). "Whosoever is in a position to come across will receive medical treatment and relief material because a large number of people are injured and there is no adequate arrangements for their treatment," Mukherjee told reporters on the sidelines of the 24th Coast Guard Commanders meeting here. He also said that no military help would be extended to Pakistan for reconstruction of their military bunkers. "Neither they will agree, nor it will be desirable on our part to reconstruct their military establishments like bunkers and others," Mukherjee said. As far as construction of houses is concerned, the Defence Minister said that it could only be done by the Military Engineering Services (MES), but when Pakistan was not ready to take India's helicopters with military pilots, how could they allow MES people to go and construct there. "For immediate construction activities, it is not normal that Public Works Department can do it. Here the Military Engineering Services will have to operate that. Now if they cannot take helicopters with military pilots, how do you expect that they will allow our MES people to go and construct there," he said. More than 75,000 people are known to have been injured seriously after the October 8 earthquake, and opening the roads would allow many more in cut-off villages to get medical treatment. Meanwhile, officials from both countries are meeting in Islamabad on October 29 to discuss modalities of opening points along the LOC for relief.