Aid exchanged as historic opening of border underway

(7 Nov 2005) 1. Zoom in to Pakistani Brigadier Tahir Naqvi shaking hands with Indian official A. K. Bakshi 2. Mid shot of the two men shaking hands 3. Pakistani men (wearing maroon hats) arriving in truck to collect aid 4. Mid of Pakistani men in truck 5. Wide of people around trucks 6. Tracking shot of aid being passed from Indians in truck to Pakistani men in another truck 7. Wide of press near truck 8. Aid being carried by Pakistani men 9. Wide of crowd around trucks 10. Various of people waiting 11. Braj Raj Sharma, top civilian official in Jammu Division of Indian-controlled Kashmir shaking hands with Deputy Commissioner of Azad (Pakistan-controlled) Kashmir, Farooq Tabbsam 12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Farooq Tabbsam, Deputy Commissioner of Azad (Pakistan-controlled) Kashmir "People would be crossing, I think, within one week" 13. Wide of aid trucks STORYLINE: India and Pakistan exchanged earthquake aid on Monday at their disputed Kashmir frontier in a mostly symbolic act of cooperation following the 8 October quake. Pakistani Brigadier Tahir Naqvi shook hands with Indian official A. K. Bakshi across a white line painted at the Rawalakot-Punch border crossing set up near the Punch River. They declared it open for aid exchanges. Trucks then backed up to the line, about five metres (yards) apart, and porters from the Indian side handed the first batch of aid - sacks packed with tents - to counterparts on the Pakistani side, who loaded them onto their truck. Several other trucks stood at the ready. Braj Raj Sharma, a top civilian official in Jammu Division of Indian-controlled Kashmir said the 25 truckloads of Indian aid included tents, tarpaulins, sugar, butter and medicine. Pakistani officials said a single truckload of aid from Pakistan would also be handed over to India. The Deputy Commissioner of Azad (Pakistan-controlled) Kashmir, Farooq Tabbsam said he thought people would start crossing the frontier "within one week". The border opening that the two sides agreed to last month was supposed to have been a much grander gesture, letting civilians of divided Kashmir cross at five points to check on long-lost relatives and visit relief camps set up along the frontier. But India on Saturday said it was prepared to open only one crossing, and on Sunday officials on both sides said bureaucratic wrangling would delay chances for people to cross. The 7.6-magnitude quake on October 8 killed about 80-thousand people - most of them in northern Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir but also 1,350 in India's portion of divided region. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...