Chakothi, Pakistan, June 2, SPA -- For the first time in sixdecades, separatist leaders from Indian-controlled Kashmirarrived Thursday on an official visit to the Pakistani sideof the divided Himalayan region in a boost to peace effortsbetween South Asia's nuclear rivals. Nine moderate separatist leaders traveled on a recentlyinaugurated cross-Kashmir bus service, seeking to push bothsides to settle the Kashmir dispute _ cause of two of thecountries' three wars since independence from Britain in1947. On reaching the militarized Line of Control that dividesKashmir, the nine got off the bus on the Indian side andwalked over the "Friendship Bridge" to the Pakistan side,where they were greeted by Sardar Sikandar Hayat, primeminister of Pakistani Kashmir, according to a report of the Associated Press.--SPA1557 Local Time 1257 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/266983