After five years in jail, two Indian and one Pakistani prisoners of war from the Kargil conflict in Kashmir finally walked back home Monday, according to independent News Network International.

A Pakistani soldier Saleem Ali was handed over to the Pakistani authorities at the Wagah post, about 30 kilometers east of Lahore.Wagah is the legal crossing between the two neighbors on the border.

India also freed three Pakistani children, who mistakenly crossed into India in 2003.

The freed prisoners would undergo medical checkup before they are allowed to go home.

The 1999 Kargil War took place between May 8, when Pakistani forces and Kashmiri militants were detected atop the Kargil ridgesin the India-held Kashmir and July 14 when both sides had essentially ceased their military operations.

The incursion of Pakistan-backed armed forces into territory on the Indian side of the line of control around Kargil and the Indian military campaign to repel the intrusion left 524 Indian soldiers and 696 Pakistani troops dead.

Source: Xinhua