While authorities are waiting for the report of the three-member inquiry panel, initial reports suggested that overloading and rash driving was the main cause of Wednesday s devasting accident which claimed the lives of 39 passengers.
While serving as a teacher in a government school in Poonch district, Aijaz Ahmad Sheikh was monitoring terror activities in the border belt. Apart from luring youth to join terror ranks, the teacher was also assigned the job of transporting arms and ammunition from one place to another.
As deaths on killer roads of Chenab Valley go unabated, the J&K Government constitutes one more panel to ascertain the reason for such tragedies after repeated intervals.
Killed during an encounter on the LoC in J&K s Uri sector, Bashir Ahmed Malik was instrumental in pushing terrorists on this side of the border for the last three decades.