Families went back to their own beds on Sunday as an eerie calm descended over communities in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), but they made sure to keep their bunkers supplied.
Before a truce mediated by the United States was reached on Saturday, four days of fierce fighting between India and Pakistan claimed more than 60 lives.
Kashmir, a mountainous Muslim-majority area split between the two nations, is at the center of the fighting and frequently has the highest death toll.
Families weary of decades of intermittent firing started to head back home — for the time being — on the Pakistani side of the heavily guarded de facto boundary, known as the Line of Control (LoC).