Pakistan-occupied Kashmir president Anwar Khan has invited two Jammu-based Hindus, whose families got separated after 1947, to visit relatives.

Jagdish Raj Tandon and former member of Parliament Tirth Ram Amla will be treated as state guests during their stay in PoK.

The invitation was extended through Khalid Hussain, a former Kashmir government bureaucrat.

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Hussain and his wife went to Muzaffarabad in the first Caarvan-e-Aman bus to PoK on April 7 and returned on April 21.

"Anwar Khan said he made the offer when he apprised various leaders in PoK on April 8 that Tandon was keen to talk to his brothers living in Gaddi Dupatta area there", Hussain told PTI.

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Tandon migrated to Jammu in 1947, but his three brothers stayed back in PoK to carry on the business of their father, Hari Shah and later converted to Islam, he said.

Hussain said the PoK president took personal interest to arrange for a telephone conversation between Tandon and his brothers.

Khan also asked Hussain to convey to Amla the invitation. Amla's brother, Gian Chand, died a few years ago but his children converted to Islam and continued to live in PoK.

"As group leader [of those who travelled on the first Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus] I thanked their gesture.." Hussain added.