Srinagar, May 13 -- After days of fear and uncertainty, life is slowly returning back to normal in most of the areas affected by the Indo-Pak tensions. The displaced villagers from Uri and Tangdhar have started returning to their native places after spending several days away from their homes to escape the heavy shelling. The bomb disposal squad of police have cleared six villages by defusing the stray bombs and people were allowed to move in. One of the shelling affected villages was Garkote on the Line of Control which sits atop a mountain. The village with more than 3,000 inhabitant had also witnessed the shelling in the late 90's. The people left on the first day of shelling to escape the nightmare. Zaffar Ahmad, who moved to Baramulla a day before the ceasefire anticipating prolong devastations, was on Monday packing his bags to move back to his village. "Ours is a big extended family. When we left, some took refuge in Baramulla and others travelled to Srinagar. A day before the ceasefire we moved into a rented house in old city Baramulla as we thought the hostilities would go on for many days," he said, adding that they are very happy this nightmare lasted for a brief time. "Our village has seen the devastation due to shelling in the past also and this time also. We know what it means to live on the LoC especially when you don't even have underground bunkers," said Ahmad, who runs a shop in Uri market. Though the markets opened on Sunday, many shops remained closed. "There are very few customers as many people are yet to return," he said. Asifa Akhthar had left along with her family of 10-member family from her Gingal village and is still staying at Sheeri in a seminary waiting for clearance from government to travel to their village. "More than 10 houses were completely damaged in the shelling and half of the houses in the village suffered some minor damages. Once our village will be cleared from unexploded shells we will also go home," she said adding that around 200 people from her village are in the rooms of seminary since last four days. "My uncle's house was completely damaged. Our windows were also shattered. We are poor people and appeal government to release money for repair and rehabilitation so we can again live peacefully," she said. Mohammad Sadiq of Nambla returned to his village in the afternoon along with 10 members of family. "We escaped on Friday and took shelter at a school in Baramulla. Once the village was sanitised we reached our place. We are happy that the ceasefire has again given us a chance to be at our homes," he said adding that their neighbours are also returning. "Our village had witnessed the worst shelling in the 90's. This time also majority of villagers had left when they apprehended trouble between India and Pakistan. Several people have lost lives in our village in late 90's and early 2000. The India Pakistan ceasefire had brought us big relief only to see it ending last week when we witnessed heaviest shelling of our life." Legislator Sajjad Shafi said that hundreds of people have started returning to villages which have been sanitised. "We have started sending villagers back from Baramulla to those villages which have cleared by bomb disposal squads," he said. Police said that they have been intimated about presence of 20 unexploded ordnances in 17 villages....