“As many as 27 returnees also crossed sides at Kaman Post in the bus, operating between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad,” official sources told UNI this evening.
They said 32 residents of PoK, including 13 women and three children, arrived at Kaman Post after crossing the Aman Setu, peace bridge, on foot to meet their relatives, separated in 1947 due to partition.
Four Kashmiris, including a woman, who had gone to PoK, also returned to their homes after completing their stay on the other side of the LoC.
Meanwhile, only one Kashmiri crossed over to the other side though 23 PoK residents, including eight women and a child, who had arrived here in previous buses returned to their homes after completing their stay.
Pak troops have been violating ceasefire almost daily on the LoC and International Border (IB), particularly in Jammu region that left a woman and a soldier dead and several others injured during the past 48 hours while alert troops killed two Pak infiltrators in Machil sector recently.
The bus service, a major Confidence Building Measure (CBM), was taken to allow resident of both sides, separated in 1947 to meet each other. The first bus operated despite opposition by militant outfits on April 7, 2005 and later all separatist leaders, barring hardline Hurriyat Conference (HC) chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) chief Shabir Ahmad Shah, travelled in the bus to PoK.
However, only the state subjects from both sides are eligible to travel in the bus after intelligence agencies of Pakistan and India clear their names.
So far thousands of families, separated due to partition, have met each other after the introduction of the peace bus. UNI
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