US EditionPakistan's Kashmiris return to homes, but keep bunkers stocked
- A US-brokered ceasefire was announced on Saturday between Pakistan and India along the Kashmir Line of Control, where families began returning home after recent clashes.
- The ceasefire follows intense conflict that killed more than 60 people in four days, rooted in the unresolved dispute over the disputed, mountainous Kashmir region.
- Residents like Muhammad Munir and Kashif Minhas in Chakothi expressed doubts about peace and described hardships such as searching for transport to flee renewed fighting.
- Over a thousand bunkers have been established along the heavily militarized LoC, with roughly one-third constructed by the government, to shelter residents from shelling by Indian forces.
- Despite the truce, locals and observers warn the ceasefire may not last since the core Kashmir issue remains unresolved, sustaining hostility between the arch-rivals.
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In Pakistan’s Chakothi, families emerge from bunkers as ceasefire holds — but few trust it will last
CHAKOTHI (Pakistan), May 12 — As an uneasy calm settled over villages on the Pakistan side of contested Kashmir on Sunday, families returned to their own beds but were sure to leave their bunkers stocked. More than 60 people were killed in four days of intense conflict between arch-rivals Pakistan and India before a US-brokered truce was announced on Saturday. At heart of the hostilities is Kashmir, a mountainous Muslim-majority region divided b…
AJK Kashmiris return to homes after Pakistan-India ceasefire
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Rajouri family’s desperate bid for survival
Rajouri, May 11: A family in Rajouri’s border village used an under-construction house’s septic tank as a makeshift bunker to shield themselves from intense shelling by Pakistan. This timely precaution saved nine members of family as a high explosive artillery shell exploded near their house. The family of Pandit Kishori Lal, who had recently built a new house, rushed into the septic tank with just two minutes to spare. Moments later, a mortar s…
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