But as with the other three that opened last week, Kashmiris themselves will not be allowed to cross the Line of Control (LoC) that divides the Himalayan territory.

"The Tatta Pani-Mendher crossing on the Line of Control in Kashmir opened at 10:30 am (0530 GMT)," a senior Pakistani military official in the area said. Tatta Pani is on the Pakistani side and Mendher is in the Indian sector.

Senior officers shook hands over the frontier and Pakistani and Indian troops exchanged aid supplies for quake-hit families on both sides, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

"They exchanged two trucks each of relief goods," he said, adding that no Kashmiris were permitted to cross the heavily militarized border.

Pakistani police used tear gas to hold back angry villagers who wanted to cross the frontier when the first crossing opened a week ago, and the issue still rankles with Kashmiris.

The two countries have yet to exchange lists of people who will eventually be allowed to pass through the crossing points to help relatives and friends on the other side.

The October 8 earthquake killed at least 73,000 people in Pakistan and 1,300 in Indian Kashmir. It affected more than three million people, mostly in Pakistani Kashmir.

The two countries opened the first crossing along the Line of Control on November 7 in Poonch district, followed two days later by another in the Uri sector. The third crossing at Titwal was opened on Saturday.

The move to open the ceasefire line after a gap of almost 60 years has been hailed as a boost to the peace process between the two nuclear-armed rivals, who have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir.

However the openings of the crossing points are largely symbolic, as only a limited amount of aid is coming through.

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