Baramulla : Around 270 marriages have taken place in the border areas of Kashmir region amid peace and tranquillity with locals were seen celebrating wedding functions peacefully this year as the wedding season has come to an end.
The people residing along the LOC said that for the first neither there was any change in venue ceremonies nor there was any other threat of cross border shelling thus brought complete back old memories of weddings.
Tentative figures states that at 30 more marriages have been taken place during the current month in Keran, Machil, Bangus, Tangdhar, Gurez, and Uri area along the LoC in north Kashmir, taking to total number of marriages during the current year 270.
The local representatives told KNO that the shelling has made their lives a living hell for decades as they have lost loved ones and seen their homes destroyed due to the cross border shelling between two armies. “I think it’s first time neither there was any change in venue ceremonies as happened during past, nor there was any shelling threat,” said, DDC member Tulail Raja Aijaz, who was also married recently in his locality.
He said that the marriages has come to an end in the border villages as winter is approaching. “So I’ll say all the marriages have taken peaceful and we are happy to witness such celebrations after a very long time.”
He said: “We have forgotten what happened in the past and now they have been living a life of peace and tranquillity.”
There will never be cross border shelling, with this hope, Fatima Begum, a 68-year-old women from Gurez village is decorating her two-storey house again that was damaged by cross border shelling few years ago.
Begum’s village is now quite peaceful since two years however, multiple razor fences that are still laid there and the security forces are still deployed in the same way but people don’t pay any attention to these things anymore as guns were fell silent there.
Similarly without any fear the other villagers were busy with their routine chores while children too were playing in the meadows, replacing the rattle of the gunfire that caused death and despair to the residents for decades.
“We still can’t believe we’ve been living a normal life here for the past year. The sounds of artillery shells are gone while people are busy decorating their settlements again which had been destroyed during the shelling here,” Mehmooda, another woman said.
She said that the peace that the border residents have been longing for decades is finally being felt for the last one year and now and let’s hope and pray it remains intact because people no longer have the space to suffer.
On February 2021, India and Pakistan had announced that they have agreed to strictly observe all agreements on ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir and other sectors—(KNO)
