MUZAFFARABAD, Feb 22: Kashmiris from occupied Kashmir took out a rally here on Tuesday to celebrate the agreement between India and Pakistan to start a bus service between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad.

The demonstrators, describing themselves as members of the "Jammu Kashmir Real Force", had migrated to Azad Kashmir from 1990 onwards and the majority of them live in rented houses in different neighbourhoods of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir capital instead of refugee camps. They demanded that the two governments should also give priority to the divided families when the bus service starts.

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