NEW DELHI, June 24 (Xinhuanet) -- India on Friday refused to grant permission to Pakistan's Information Minister Sheikh Rashid to travel to India-controlled Kashmir by Muzaffarabad-Srinagar bus onJune 30.

    "The Government of India has processed the application and has declined to accord permission taking into account all relevant aspects involved," the Ministry of External Affairs' spokesperson told reporters Friday evening.

    The Pakistani information minister had intended to travel to Kashmir by Muzaffarabad-Srinagar bus which was launched in April this year.

    However, the revelations made by Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman Yasin Malik, who was a militant, in the media that "Sheikh Rashid was running terror camps in the Pakistan-administered Kashmir in the 1990s" put the visit under cloud.

    Earlier, Pakistan too had denied permission to Mehbooba Mufti, India-controlled Kashmir's ruling People's Democratic Party chief,and some other leaders from that region to travel by the inaugural bus from Srinagar to Muzaffarbad to Pakistan-controlled Kashmir in early April this year. Enditem