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This photograph taken on April 28, 2025 shows Shabbir Awan (L) with his relatives clearing a wooden log from an underground bunker in the Chakothi village of Azad Kashmir, about 3kms from the Line of Control (LoC) — AFP
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In the villages of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), families returned to their homes, while preparing their bunkers and stocking after a ceasefire between Pakistan and India.
More than 60 people were killed in a four -day dispute between nuclear armed neighbors before announcing the US broker trase on Saturday.
Kashmir is in the heart of enmity, which is a mountainous Muslim -majority region, which is divided between the two countries, but has been fully claimed by the two, and where heavy casualties are often reported.
Known as the Line of Control (LoC), heavy militant de facto border began to return home by decades of rid -firing, towards Pakistan – just started returning home.
“I have no confidence in India.
His eight -member family sheltered at night and parts of the day under the roofs of a 20 -inch thick concrete of two bunkers.
He said about the past few days, “Whenever Indian shelling, I would take my family into it.”
“We have stored mattresses, flour, rice, other food supply, and even some valuables.”
According to an administrative officer in the region, to protect the citizens from Indian shelling, the government has built more than a thousand bunkers along the third, along with the LoC.
No guaranteed
Pakistan and India have fought several wars on Kashmir, and India has long fought against the independence groups for independence or integration with Pakistan.
New Delhi has accused Islamabad of supporting freedom fighters, including tourists attacks in April, who gave rise to the latest dispute.
Pakistan said it was not involved and demanded a neutral, independent and international investigation.
Between Saturday and Sunday night, limited shootings felt some families hesitate to return to their homes on folk.
In Chakothi, the lush and shadowy mountains are located, with an abundance of walnut trees all around, half of the 300 shops were closed and some people were standing on the streets.
“I have been living on the LoC for 50 years,” said Mohammad Munir, a 53 -year -old civil servant in Chakothi.
He said that it is the poor who are suffering the most in search of endless uncertainty and safety with the LoC, adding: “There is no guarantee that it will keep the latest ceasefire – we have some confidence in it.”
When the clashes began, 25 -year -old Kashif Minhas, a constructive worker in Chakothi, searched for a car to remove his wife and three children from the fight.
“I finally had to walk several kilometers before moving another family,” he told AFP.
“In my view, the current ceasefire between India and Pakistan is just a formal. There is still a danger of a new firing, and if that happens again, I will move my family once again.”
A senior administrative officer stationed in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Azad Kashmir, where an Indian missile killed three people, told AFP that there was no report of firing since Sunday morning.
Serious doubts
In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), hundreds of thousands of people who evacuated, also cautiously returned home – many people expressed fear as Pakistani aspects.
The four-day conflict launched a deep attack in the two countries, which reached the major cities for the first time in decades-most of the deaths in Pakistan and almost all civilians.
Chakti taxi driver Mohammad Akhlaq said ceasefire “has no guarantee of lasting peace”.
The 56-year-old said, “I have serious doubts about this because the enmity between the two countries is still solved-and this is Kashmir.”
