Jammu: Indian and Pakistani security forces exchanges candy along the international border (IB) and the control line (LOC) in Jammu and Kashmir on Eid al-Adha occasion on Wednesday, officials said.
Indian and Pakistani troops exchange exchanges in Poonch-Rawalakot and Mendhar-Hotspring Crossing Points along the Loc in the Poonch district.
They said the ceremony was seen as an increase in the size of confidence in the background of the ceasefire between the two countries.
Greetings and the best expectations for peace and harmoniously were delivered to representatives of the Pakistani army.
The movement is valued by troops and is expected to promote good intentions and trust each other, they said.
On Eid al-Ul-Adha occasion, Pakistani’s border security force (BSF) and Rangers Pakistan greeted each other and exchanged candy in Hira Nagar, Samba, Ramgarh, Pura Hospital, Arnia, the pargwal sectors of the herbal border, officials said.
This is the first candy exchange between two border guard troops after the Pulwama incident.
There is no cross-border shooting for a long time and farmers on both sides of the border have been able to carry out their agricultural activities peacefully, they said.
Forty CRPF personnel were killed when their bus in a long convoy of more than 70 plying vehicles from herbal medicine to Srinagar bombed on February 14, 2019, by a suicide bomber Jaish-e-Mohammed.
Immediately after, India carried out air strikes at the terrorist training camp from the terror group in Pakistan Balakot.
India and Pakistan have been on February 25 this year released a joint statement that announced a ceasefire along the control line (LOC) in Jammu and Kashmir, following talks among the generals of their military operations.
The two countries had previously signed a ceasefire agreement in 2003 but was repeatedly violated due to death and injury to civilians and troops on both sides.