AMN / WEB DESK
Indian and Pakistan army today exchanged sweets on the occasion of Eid ul Azha at the line of control.
On the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha and as a gesture for promoting Peace, Harmony & Compassion in the true spirit of the festival, India and Pakistan Armies held a Flag meeting and exchanged sweets at Kaman Aman Setu, Uri & Tithwal Crossing on Kishanganga River in Tangdhar area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district.
The event has been held when both the Armies have been strictly following the Ceasefire Agreement on the Line of Control (LoC).
The Pakistani side had unilaterally stopped the exchange after the Narendra Modi government on August 5, 2019, abrogated provisions of Article 370 of the Constitution which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir.
A BSF spokesperson here said that “exchange of sweets took place between BSF and Pakistan Rangers on the occasion of Eid at JCP (joint check post) Attari” in Punjab’s Amritsar district, which lies across the Wagah border front of Pakistan.
A similar exchange of sweets took place between the two forces along the Rajasthan front too, officials said.
This was the first time that sweets were exchanged between the two forces after the abrogation of Article 370 as the Pakistani side refused to continue with the custom, they said, adding after the developments of August 2019, the offer of exchanging sweets was made by the BSF but the Pakistani side did not reciprocate.
The BSF spokesperson, however, said this custom was suspended last year due to the outbreak of COVID-19.
The BSF guards the about 2,290 km India-Pakistan International Border (IB) that runs north to south from Jammu, Punjab, Rajasthan up to Gujarat on India’s western flank.
Exchange of sweets on the occasion of Eid-ul-Adha also took place along the border in Jammu.
“This is the first exchange of sweets between the two border guarding forces (BSF and Pakistan Rangers) after the Pulwama incident (in 2019). There was no cross-border shelling for long and farmers on both sides of the border have been able to carry out their farming activities peacefully,” the Jammu frontier of the BSF said in a statement.