“As many as eight returnees also crossed sides at Kaman Post in the bus, operating between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad,” official sources told UNI this evening.
They said four residents of PoK arrived at Kaman Post after crossing the Aman Setu, peace bridge, on foot to meet their relatives, separated in 1947 due to partition.
Meanwhile, seven Kashmiris, including three women, crossed over to the other side of LoC.
They said eight PoK residents, including four women, who had arrived here in previous buses, returned to their homes after completing their stay.
Pakistan has been violating ceasefire almost daily on the LoC and International Border (IB), particularly in Jammu region, where three children were killed and 11 others civilians injured in Pak firing since early this morning. Meanwhile, alert troops killed three infiltrators in two separate incidents in north Kashmir since early this morning.
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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