Wagah (Amritsar): A delegation of 42 Indian journalists and members of South Asia Free Media Association (SAFMA) today (Nov 19, 2004) crossed over to Pakistan through the Wagah border.

The delegation is being led by K K Katyal, president of SAFMA in India. Most of the journalists of electronic and print media were from Delhi, Jammu and Punjab.

SAFMA secretary general Satnam Singh Manak said 25 members of Indian delegation would also visit Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).

The visit of India-based journalists would enormously help them to write authentic reports on Pakistan occupied Kashmir and have a first hand account of the state of affairs of the masses living there," he said.

SAFMA said this was a "reciprocal" trip after a 15-member delegation of Pakistani journalists had visited Jammu and Kashmir early last month.

The delegation would attend a Conference on 'solutions of conflicts among the masses of South Asia' to be held at Lahore from November 20 to 22.

After attending it, 25 journalists would go to PoK and rest of the media persons would come back to India on November 23, he said.